Convert tags to html entities

Question

Is it possible to convert html tags to html entities using javascript/jquery using any way possible such as regex or some other way. If yes, then how?

Exampl

Answer 1

There's a concise way of doing this using String.prototype.replace() and regular expressions as follows:

var tag = "
This should 
be bold
 and big
";
var escapedTag = tag.replace(//g, ">");