entities

Methods

(static) decodeHtmlEntities(str) → {string}

Decodes HTML entities in a string using the following rules:

  • & becomes &
  • " becomes "
  • ' becomes '
  • < becomes <
  • > becomes >

It is different than dom.decodeHTML, which decodes all characters using the browser's DOMParser. This function only decodes the characters listed above and should be used when DOMParser is not available.

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Parameters:
Name Type Description
str string

The string to decode
Returns:
Type:
string

The decoded string

Example
htmlDecode('&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;') // <a href="#">Link</a>

(static) encodeHtmlEntities(str) → {string}

Encodes HTML entities in a string using the following rules:

  • & (ampersand) becomes &
  • " (double quote) becomes "
  • ' (single quote) becomes '
  • < (less than) becomes <

  • (greater than) becomes >

It is different than dom.encodeHTML, which encodes all characters using the browser's DOMParser. This function only encodes the characters listed above and should be used when DOMParser is not available.

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Parameters:
Name Type Description
str string

The string to encode
Returns:
Type:
string

The encoded string

Example
htmlEncode('<a href="#">Link</a>') // &lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;