unescape - @std/html

function unescape

unescape(str: string,
options?: Partial<UnescapeOptions>
): string

Unescapes HTML entities in text.

Default options only handle &<>'" and numeric entities.

Examples

Basic usage

import { unescape } from "@std/html/entities";
import { assertEquals } from "@std/assert";

assertEquals(unescape("&lt;&gt;&#39;&amp;AA"), "<>'&AA");
assertEquals(unescape("&thorn;&eth;"), "&thorn;&eth;");

Using a custom entity list

This uses the full named entity list from the HTML spec (~47K un-minified)

import { unescape } from "@std/html/entities";
import entityList from "@std/html/named-entity-list.json" with { type: "json" };
import { assertEquals } from "@std/assert";

assertEquals(unescape("&lt;&gt;&#39;&amp;AA", { entityList }), "<>'&AA");