unescape | /html/entities.ts | std@0.222.1

function unescape

import { unescape } from "https://deno.land/std@0.222.1/html/entities.ts";

unescape(str: string, options?: Partial<UnescapeOptions>): string

Unescapes HTML entities in text.

Examples

Example 1

import { unescape } from "https://deno.land/std@0.222.1/html/entities.ts";

// Default options (only handles &<>'" and numeric entities)
unescape("&lt;&gt;&apos;&amp;&#65;&#x41;"); // "<>'&AA"
unescape("&thorn;&eth;"); // "&thorn;&eth;"

// Using the full named entity list from the HTML spec (~47K un-minified)
import entityList from "https://deno.land/std@0.222.1/html/named_entity_list.json" with { type: "json" };

unescape("&thorn;&eth;", { entityList }); // "þð"

Parameters

str: string

optional

options: Partial<UnescapeOptions> = [UNSUPPORTED]

Returns

string