Convert HTML Character Entities back to regular text using javascript

Question

the questions says it all :)

eg. we have >, we need > using only javascript

Update: It seems jquery is t

Answer 1

Here is a "class" for decoding whole HTML document.

HTMLDecoder = {
    tempElement: document.createElement('span'),
    decode: function(html) {
        var _self = this;
        html.replace(/&(#(?:x[0-9a-f]+|\d+)|[a-z]+);/gi,
            function(str) {
                _self.tempElement.innerHTML= str;
                str = _self.tempElement.textContent || _self.tempElement.innerText;
                return str;
            }
        );
    }
}

Note that I used Gumbo's regexp for catching entities but for fully valid HTML documents (or XHTML) you could simpy use /&[^;]+;/g.