Can I escape html special chars in javascript?

Question

I want to display a text to HTML by a javascript function. How can I escape html special chars in JS? Is there an API ?

Answer 1

I think I found the proper way to do it...

// Create a DOM Text node:
var text_node = document.createTextNode(unescaped_text);

// Get the HTML element where you want to insert the text into:
var elem = document.getElementById('msg_span');

// Optional: clear its old contents
//elem.innerHTML = '';

// Append the text node into it:
elem.appendChild(text_node);