htmlentities.js

A minimal html entities decoder/encoder using DOM.

Disclaimer

You shouldn't use this "library" for anything real, this is made purely for demonstrational purposes. For reasons why using the approach may be harmful, see this issue and the article it links to.

Usage

//Encode string
htmlentities.encode('<&>'); // returns '&lt;&amp;&gt;';

//Decode string
htmlentities.decode('&lt;&amp;&gt;'); // returns '<&>';

//Also, htmlentities() is a shorthand for encode
htmlentities === htmlentities.encode; // true

MIT license