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

This is, by far, the fastest way I have seen it done. Plus, it does it all without adding, removing, or changing elements on the page.

function escapeHTML(unsafeText) {
    let div = document.createElement('div');
    div.innerText = unsafeText;
    return div.innerHTML;
}