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var decodeEntities = (function() { | |
// this prevents any overhead from creating the object each time | |
var element = document.createElement('div'); | |
function decodeHTMLEntities (str) { | |
if(str && typeof str === 'string') { | |
// strip script/html tags | |
str = str.replace(/<script[^>]*>([\S\s]*?)<\/script>/gmi, ''); | |
str = str.replace(/<\/?\w(?:[^"'>]|"[^"]*"|'[^']*')*>/gmi, ''); | |
element.innerHTML = str; | |
str = element.textContent; | |
element.textContent = ''; | |
} | |
return str; | |
} | |
return decodeHTMLEntities; | |
})(); |
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5796718/html-entity-decode