html-entities

Fast html entities library.

Installation

bash $ npm install html-entities

Usage

XML entities

HTML validity and XSS attack prevention you can achieve from XmlEntities class.

```javascript const Entities = require('html-entities').XmlEntities;

const entities = new Entities();

console.log(entities.encode('<>"\'&©®')); // <>"'&©® console.log(entities.encodeNonUTF('<>"\'&©®')); // <>"'&©® console.log(entities.encodeNonASCII('<>"\'&©®')); // <>"\'&©® console.log(entities.decode('<>"'&©®∆')); // <>"'&©®∆ ```

All HTML entities encoding/decoding

```javascript const Entities = require('html-entities').AllHtmlEntities;

const entities = new Entities();

console.log(entities.encode('<>"&©®∆')); // <>"&©®∆ console.log(entities.encodeNonUTF('<>"&©®∆')); // <>"&©®∆ console.log(entities.encodeNonASCII('<>"&©®∆')); // <>"&©®∆ console.log(entities.decode('<>"&©®')); // <>"&©® ```

Available classes

javascript const XmlEntities = require('html-entities').XmlEntities, // <>"'& + &#...; decoding Html4Entities = require('html-entities').Html4Entities, // HTML4 entities. Html5Entities = require('html-entities').Html5Entities, // HTML5 entities. AllHtmlEntities = require('html-entities').AllHtmlEntities; // Synonym for HTML5 entities.

Supports four methods for every class:

• encode — encodes, replacing characters to its entity representations. Ignores UTF characters with no entity representation.
• encodeNonUTF — encodes, replacing characters to its entity representations. Inserts numeric entities for UTF characters.
• encodeNonASCII — encodes, replacing only non-ASCII characters to its numeric entity representations.
• decode — decodes, replacing entities to characters. Unknown entities are left as is.