escapeHtml

Owned by Jonathan Muse
Last updated: Sept 23, 2021
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Description

Escapes the given html removing traces of offending characters that could be wrongfully interpreted as markup The following characters are reserved in HTML and must be replaced with their corresponding HTML entities:

  • " is replaced with "

  • & is replaced with &

  • < is replaced with &lt;

  • > is replaced with &gt;

 

Parameters

Return Type

String

Returns the html input escaped.

Example

return escapeHtml("<html><script><img src=1 onerror=alert(1)></script></html>");

Returns :Returns "&lt;html&gt;&lt;script&gt;&lt;img src=1 onerror=alert(1)&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/html&gt;"

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