In SGML, HTML and XML documents, the logical constructs known as character data and attribute values consist of sequences of characters, in which each character can manifest directly (representing itself), or can be represented by a series of characters called a character reference, of which there are two types: a numeric character reference (&#nnnn; or &#xhhhh;) and a character entity reference (&name;).
It's relatively easy to unescape those numeric HTML entities, you only need to pass character code into String.fromCharCode() method to unescape into its raw character.
Comprehensively unescaping HTML entities
In order to comprehensively unescaping HTML entities, including numeric and named characters; We need to leverage other solutions beyond the String.fromCharCode method.
Unescaping HTML entities
Understanding HTML entity
The definition of character entity from Wikipedia:
In SGML, HTML and XML documents, the logical constructs known as character data and attribute values consist of sequences of characters, in which each character can manifest directly (representing itself), or can be represented by a series of characters called a character reference, of which there are two types: a numeric character reference (
&#nnnn;or&#xhhhh;) and a character entity reference (&name;).Lists of HTML entities
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Unescaping numeric HTML entities
It's relatively easy to unescape those numeric HTML entities, you only need to pass character code into
String.fromCharCode()method to unescape into its raw character.Comprehensively unescaping HTML entities
In order to comprehensively unescaping HTML entities, including numeric and named characters; We need to leverage other solutions beyond the
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