how do you do html encode using javascript?

Asked Jan 15 '13 at 20:35

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JavaScript/jQuery HTML Encoding

I have html tags need to be encoded.

<b>test</b>

I need to encode it to :

&lt;b&gt;test&lt;/b&gt;

I am using escape, but it doesn't work.

document.write(escape("<b>test</b>"));

the result I got is

%3Cb%3Etest%3C/b%3E

this is not what I expected. is there another way to do html encode using javascript?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:33

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asked Jan 15 '13 at 20:35

qinking126

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this is NOT a duplicate. an answer is this: `str => { let elt = document.createElement('span'); elt.textContent = str; return elt.innerHTML;}` – Spongman Nov 12 '18 at 20:23
document.write(('test').replace(//g, '>')); – Simon Borsky Apr 18 '19 at 12:17

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