ent

Encode and decode HTML entities

example

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

output:

<span>©moo</span>
π & ρ

methods

encode(str)

Escape unsafe characters in str with html entities.

decode(str)

Convert html entities in str back to raw text.

credits

HTML entity tables shamelessly lifted from perl's HTML::Entities