I have code in javascript:
var location = '"HCM - NYC (New York, NY)"';
td_Details.innerText = location;
Now I want to decode the text location to
"HCM - NYC (New York, NY)"
Please advice. Thanks.
2 Answers
There is no specific function in JavaScript which will decode HTML entities, however you can assign an innerHTML property to an element and then read it back.
x = document.createElement('div');
x.innerHTML = ""test"";
console.log(x.innerHTML); // => "test"
This will work for any HTML entities, not just "
edit:
As pointed out below, you're half-way there, you're just using the wrong property.
Change:
td_Details.innerText = location;
to:
td_Details.innerHTML = location;
For future reference, innerHTML is available in all browsers. innerText is not.
To remove the " just use the following:
location = location.replace(/"/g, '');
You may have actually meant to include the quotes in your output. To do so, do this instead:
location = location.replace(/"/g, '"');
2 Comments
studgeek
Your code removes it, but I think you want to replace it with a quote -
replace(/"/g, '"')
Delan Azabani
Ah, yes, I had misinterpreted the quotes as not being included in the desired output. I'll update my answer; thanks!
location, that's a reserved word. It didn't worked too well for me.windowobject.locationis not a reserved word. It is a client side object, so using it may be inadvisable but has no negative effects (unless you want to use the object).