unescapeHtml

Decodes the HTML entities produced by escapeHtml.

Code

unescapeHtml.ts

const entities: Record<string, string> = {
  "&lt;": "<",
  "&gt;": ">",
  "&quot;": '"',
  "&#39;": "'",
  "&#x27;": "'",
  "&amp;": "&",
};

/** Decodes the HTML entities produced by escapeHtml. */
export const unescapeHtml = (value: string): string => {
  return value.replace(/&(lt|gt|quot|#39|#x27|amp);/gi, (entity) => entities[entity.toLocaleLowerCase()] ?? entity);
};

Download

wget

Terminal

wget -O src/lib/unescapeHtml.ts https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jrTilak/lazykit/HEAD/registry/functions/unescapeHtml.ts

degit

Terminal

temp_dir="$(mktemp -d)" && bunx degit jrTilak/lazykit/registry/functions "$temp_dir" && mv "$temp_dir/unescapeHtml.ts" src/lib/unescapeHtml.ts && rm -r "$temp_dir"

Examples

unescapeHtml.example.ts

import { unescapeHtml } from "./unescapeHtml";

const text = unescapeHtml("<strong>Hello</strong>");

Props

• value (string) — Text containing supported entities.
• Decodes one layer of lt, gt, quot, amp, #39, and #x27 entities.