js-security

Encoding and decoding methods c/o OWASP

Interface

HTML

escapeHTML, escapeHTMLAttribute

// A hyperlink.
markup = '<a href="'+ escapeHTMLAttribute(url) +'"' + '>' + escapeHTML(url) + '</a>'

JAVASCRIPT

encodeJavaScriptIdentifier, encodeJavaScriptString, encodeJavaScriptData

// A JSON response.
content = encodeJavaScriptIdentifier(req.params[callback]) + '(' + encodeJavaScriptData(req.params) + ')'

CSS

encodeCSSIdentifier, encodeCSSString

// A CSS selector
$elements = $('.' + encodeCSSIdentifier(theClass) + [title=' + encodeCSSString(theTitle) + ']')

// A CSS declaration
$element.css('background-image', 'url(' + encodeCSSString(theUrl) + ')')

License

Released under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2011 Chad Weider

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
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Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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