Decode HTML entities in JavaScript?

Question

Sample conversions:

 & -> `&`
 >  -> `>`

Any small library function that can handle this?

Answer 1

Looks like this will do:

function html_entity_decode(s) {
  var t=document.createElement('textarea');
  t.innerHTML = s;
  var v = t.value;
  t.parentNode.removeChild(t);
  return v;
}

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