Printing emojis with JavaScript and HTML

Question

Why does this work:

😄

And this doesn\'t:

document.getElementById(\"emoji\").inn         


        

Answer 1

You can also use the hacky method if you don't want to include String.fromCodePoint() in your code. It consists in creating a virtual element ...

elem=document.createElement('p')

... Filling it with the Working HTML...

elem.innerHTML = "😄"

... And finally getting its value

value = elem.innerHTML

To make it short, this works because of the fact that, as soon as you set the value of a HTML container, the value gets converted into the corresponding character.

Hope I could help.