Encode and decode HTML entities

Replacement for abandoned library ent

Without any dependencies and without using of punycode api.

Replacement in other libraries dependency

Add to your package.json override:

{
  "overrides": {
    "ent": "npm:ent-replace"
  }
}

and run

npm update

Installation from scratch

npm i ent-replace

Example

const ent = require('ent');
console.log(ent.encode('<span>©moo</span>'))
console.log(ent.decode('&pi; &amp; &rho;'));

<span>©moo</span>
π & ρ

encode(str, opts={})

Escape unsafe characters in str with html entities.

By default, entities are encoded with numeric decimal codes.

If opts.numeric is false or opts.named is true, encoding will used named codes like π.

If opts.special is set to an Object, the key names will be forced to be encoded (defaults to forcing: <>'"&). For example:

console.log(encode('hello', { special: { l: true } }));

hello

decode(str)

Convert html entities in str back to raw text.

Tests

All tests copied from original repository

vitest