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Reputation: 5199

Prototype.js or other js function to decode html entities

I am looking for a prototype.js or other js function to decode html encoded entities. I am using 1.6.1 of Prototype.js and unescapeHTML does not work on French encoded characters. I believe from what I read, that is only works on a few select entities.

Can someone point me in the right direction on how I would do something like this with javascript? I would normally be able to use the .text() with jQuery, but right now the main library used is Prototype.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 870

Answers (3)

Mrchief
Mrchief

Reputation: 76208

How about this:

function decode(str) {
    var div = document.createElement('div');
    div.innerHTML = str;
    return div.innerHTML;
}

Doesn't return & properly but works fine for french ones. Updated fiddle:http://jsfiddle.net/mrchief/MRqnQ/3/

Upvotes: 3

ChristopheCVB
ChristopheCVB

Reputation: 7315

Try using that :

http://phpjs.org/functions/htmlentities:425

Upvotes: 0

Wylie
Wylie

Reputation: 1064

The built-in decodeURI function may be what you're looking for. It ignores "special" characters, but will turn an arbitrary URI-encoded string into what it represents.

Example:

encodeURI("Déjà vu") = "D%C3%A9j%C3%A0%20vu"

decodeURI("D%C3%A9j%C3%A0%20vu") = "Déjà vu"

An alternative may be to use a regular expression.

Upvotes: 0

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