How to decode HTML entities using jQuery?

Question

How do I use jQuery to decode HTML entities in a string?

Answer 1

Try this :

var htmlEntities = "<script>alert('hello');</script>";
var htmlDecode =$.parseHTML(htmlEntities)[0]['wholeText'];
console.log(htmlDecode);

parseHTML is a Function in Jquery library and it will return an array that includes some details about the given String..

in some cases the String is being big, so the function will separate the content to many indexes..

and to get all the indexes data you should go to any index, then access to the index called "wholeText".

I chose index 0 because it's will work in all cases (small String or big string).