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std/html/entities.ts>escape

Deno standard library
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The Standard Library has been moved to JSR. See the blog post for details.
function escape
import { escape } from "https://deno.land/std@0.216.0/html/entities.ts";

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

Examples

Example 1

import { escape } from "https://deno.land/std@0.216.0/html/entities.ts";

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.
escape("þð"); // "þð"

Parameters

str: string

Returns

string