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HTML

<ul id="myUL">
</ul>

JavaScript

function decodeEncodedHtmlString(input){
  var e = document.createElement('div');
  e.innerHTML = input;
  return e.childNodes.length === 0 ? "" : e.childNodes[0].nodeValue;
}

var myString = "    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;www.google.comp&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Something Else&lt;/li&gt;"



document.getElementById('myUL').innerHTML = decodeEncodedHtmlString(myString);