escape | /html/entities.ts | std@0.191.0

Module

std/html/entities.ts>escape

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function escape

import { escape } from "https://deno.land/std@0.191.0/html/entities.ts";

escape(str: string)

Escapes text for safe interpolation into HTML text content and quoted attributes

Examples

Example 1

import { escape } from "https://deno.land/std@0.191.0/html/entities.ts";
import { assertEquals } from "https://deno.land/std@0.191.0/testing/asserts.ts";

assertEquals(escape("<>'&AA"), "&lt;&gt;&#39;&amp;AA");

// characters that don't need to be escaped will be left alone,
// even if named HTML entities exist for them
assertEquals(escape("þð"), "þð");

Parameters

str: string