Javascript: Decode HTML entities

Posted on August 23, 2008

The following function decode HTML entities en return a plain text string:

function entityDecode(strHTML) {
  var tmpTextArea = document.createElement("textarea");
  tmpTextArea.innerHTML = strHTML.replace(/</g,"<").replace(/>/g,">");
  var decodedStr = tmpTextArea.value;
  document.removeElement(tmpTextArea);

  return decodedStr;
}

function entityDecode(strHTML) {

var tmpTextArea = document.createElement("textarea");

tmpTextArea.innerHTML = strHTML.replace(/</g,"<").replace(/>/g,">");

var decodedStr = tmpTextArea.value;

document.removeElement(tmpTextArea);

return decodedStr;

}

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Javascript: Decode HTML entities

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