helper to escape special characters in a given string

Installation

$ npm install html-escaping

Examples

var html = require('html-escaping');
var escape = html.escape;
var unescape = html.unescape;

var htmlString = '<h1>Hello World</h1>';
var escaped = escape(htmlString);
var unescaped = unescape(escaped);

console.log('html', htmlString, 'escaped', escaped, 'unescaped', unescaped);

API

###escape(htmltring) escape special characters by replacing them with entity names ###unescape(htmlString) clean up entity names with special characters

Tests

To run the test suite, first install the dependencies, then run npm test:

$ npm install
$ npm test

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2015 EagleWalker <StevenNguyen>

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