The 'entities' npm package is a library that helps with encoding and decoding HTML entities. It is useful for dealing with HTML data in text form and can be used to prevent XSS attacks by sanitizing input or output.
Encode HTML Entities
Encodes special characters in a string to their corresponding HTML entities. Useful for displaying text on a webpage without it being interpreted as HTML.
"require('entities').encodeHTML('<div>Hello & welcome!</div>');"Decode HTML Entities
Decodes HTML entities back to their original characters. This is useful for processing text that contains HTML entities and converting them to their readable form.
"require('entities').decodeHTML('<div>Hello & welcome!</div>');"Encode XML Entities
Similar to encoding HTML entities, but specifically for XML, which has a smaller set of entities.
"require('entities').encodeXML('<note>Priority & importance</note>');"Decode XML Entities
Decodes XML entities back to their original characters, which is useful when working with XML data.
"require('entities').decodeXML('<note>Priority & importance</note>');"The 'he' package is an HTML entity encoder/decoder written in JavaScript. It is robust and handles a large number of character references. It is similar to 'entities' but has a different API and additional options for encoding.
This package is another alternative for encoding and decoding HTML entities. It provides a similar set of functionalities as 'entities' and is often used for the same purposes in different projects.
En- & decoder for XML/HTML entities.
entitiesnpm i entities
entitiesvar entities = require("entities");
//encoding
entities.encodeXML("&"); // "&#38;"
entities.encodeHTML("&"); // "&#38;"
//decoding
entities.decodeXML("asdf & ÿ ü '"); // "asdf & ÿ ü '"
entities.decodeHTML("asdf & ÿ ü '"); // "asdf & ÿ ü '"
License: BSD-2-Clause
FAQs
Encode & decode XML and HTML entities with ease & speed
The npm package entities receives a total of 51,716,957 weekly downloads. As such, entities popularity was classified as popular.
We found that entities demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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