Converting sanitised html back to displayable html

Question

I\'m getting html data from a database which has been sanitised.

Basically what I\'m getting is something like this:

<div class=\"someclass\"&         


        

Answer 1

This could help in a snap:

String.prototype.deentitize = function() {
    var ret = this.replace(/>/g, '>');
    ret = ret.replace(/</g, '<');
    ret = ret.replace(/"/g, '"');
    ret = ret.replace(/'/g, "'");
    ret = ret.replace(/&/g, '&');
    return ret;
};