ent

Encode and decode HTML entities

example

var ent = require('ent');
console.log(ent.encode('<span>©moo</span>'))
console.log(ent.decode('&pi; &amp; &rho;'));

<span>©moo</span>
π & ρ

methods

encode(str, opts={})

Escape unsafe characters in str with html entities.

By default, entities are encoded with numeric decimal codes.

If opts.numeric is false or opts.named is true, encoding will used named codes like π.

decode(str)

Convert html entities in str back to raw text.

credits

HTML entity tables shamelessly lifted from perl's HTML::Entities

install

With npm do:

npm install ent

license

MIT