How to decode HTML entities using jQuery?

Question

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

Answer 1

I just had to have an HTML entity charater (⇓) as a value for a HTML button. The HTML code looks good from the beginning in the browser:

Now I was adding a toggle that should also display the charater. This is my solution

$("#share_button").toggle(
    function(){
        $("#share").slideDown();
        $(this).attr("value", "Embed & Share " + $("
").html("⇑").text());
    }

This displays ⇓ again in the button. I hope this might help someone.