johnjcamilleri.com » javascript http://johnjcamilleri.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:00:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How to unescape HTML entities in JavaScript http://johnjcamilleri.com/2010/02/how-to-unescape-html-entities-in-javascript/ http://johnjcamilleri.com/2010/02/how-to-unescape-html-entities-in-javascript/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:44:40 +0000 John http://johnjcamilleri.com/?p=157 This is one of those routine web development things which you assume is inbuilt, but actually proves quite tedious to find a nice solution to.

Specifically, I am talking about converting something like ' to ‘ or & to & directly in Javscript.
This function does exactly that! Note how it adds a function to the prototype for String, so is called in the following way:

"Hello José".unescapeHtml()

Find the code here: paul schreiber » Blog Archive » JavaScript: how to unescape HTML entities.

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http://blog.xkoder.com/2008/07/10/javascript-associative-arrays-demystified/

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