HtmlSpecialChars equivalent in Javascript?

Question

Apparently, this is harder to find than I thought it would be. And it even is so simple...

Is there a function equivalent to PHP\'s htmlspecialchars built into Javas

Answer 1

Worth a read: http://bigdingus.com/2007/12/29/html-escaping-in-javascript/

escapeHTML: (function() {
 var MAP = {
   '&': '&',
   '<': '<',
   '>': '>',
   '"': '"',
   "'": '''
 };
  var repl = function(c) { return MAP[c]; };
  return function(s) {
    return s.replace(/[&<>'"]/g, repl);
  };
})()

Note: Only run this once. And don't run it on already encoded strings e.g. & becomes &