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walkerline117
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8 years ago
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Best way to escape special char of html

Hi, I would like to escape special HTML characters of a string. e.g. <>,',",@ etc… I know i can use ‘replace’ method to replace all of those characters one by one with the encoded ones, but is th...
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    tstack
    8 years ago

    The second parameter can be a function, but there’s a bug caused by the regex not having escapes for the square brackets. Del’s version of the regex works:

    However, the second parameter is going to replace with the char code for ‘$’ and not the character that matched the regex. The second parameter needs to be an arrow function, like so:

    .replace(/([&<>"'` !@$%()=+{}\[\]])/g, x => ‘&#’ + x.charCodeAt(0) + ‘;’)
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del
Contributor III
8 years ago

Hah! @tstack, I was trying to beat you to the best answer and you still schooled me! 🙂

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tstack
Former Employee
8 years ago

@del I appreciate the effort, keep it up! Of course, it would be even better if we could improve the platform to the point where people didn’t need to ask so many e-lang questions. Any ideas are welcome.

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    del
    Contributor III
    8 years ago

    @tstack, I’m not sure the appropriate category, but to avoid hijacking this thread, (in a few minutes) I’ll start a post of ideas in the Enhancement Requests category.