Decode html-entities using jQuery

HTML

<div id="container"></div>

JavaScript

//var str = $('#container').text();

var str = "<p>fddfg dfgdfgdfg dfgdfgdfgd  <em>asdasd</em> <strong>cvbncvbn</strong> <code>&amp;lt;div id='asd'&amp;gt;asd&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;</code></p>";

$('#container').html(str.replace('&amp;lt;','<').replace('&amp;gt;', '>'));

console.log($('#container').html());