JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by Shawn Wood

JavaScript

var decodeEntities = (function() {
  // this prevents any overhead from creating the object each time
  var element = document.createElement('div');

  function decodeHTMLEntities (str) {
    if(str && typeof str === 'string') {
      // strip script/html tags
      str = str.replace(/<script[^>]*>([\S\s]*?)<\/script>/gmi, '');
      str = str.replace(/<\/?\w(?:[^"'>]|"[^"]*"|'[^']*')*>/gmi, '');
      console.log('str1 ',str)
      element.innerHTML = str;
      str = element.textContent;
      element.textContent = '';
    }

    return str;
  }

  return decodeHTMLEntities;
})();


// I can't use a script tag in this example
var text = decodeEntities('&Atilde;&cent;&Acirc;&iquest;&Acirc;&cent;');
console.log(text);

//document.write(text);