html entity decode
 

anybody have a browser compatible html entity decoding function?

Re: html entity decode
 

Found this online and it seems like they all use this concept.

function html_entity_decode(str)

{

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    var  tarea=document.createElement('textarea');

    tarea.innerHTML = str; return tarea.value;

    tarea.parentNode.removeChild(tarea);

}

apparently the innerHTML is giving me a runtime error on ie, i can only use value. But value doesn't decode the html entities.

Re: html entity decode
 

Found a solution:

function html_entity_decode(str)

{

    try

        {

                var  tarea=document.createElement('textarea');

                tarea.innerHTML = str; return tarea.value;

                tarea.parentNode.removeChild(tarea);

        }

        catch(e)

        {

                //for IE add <div id="htmlconverter" style="display:none;"></div> to the page

                document.getElementById("htmlconverter").innerHTML = '<textarea id="innerConverter">' + str + '</textarea>';

                var content = document.getElementById("innerConverter").value;

                document.getElementById("htmlconverter").innerHTML = "";

                return content;

        }

}

this way you can still add the innerHTML, but to a div instead, and it also adds a textarea with it so it can be retrieved by the value of the textarea. then it clears out the div and leaves it blank.
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