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

The most concise and performant way to display unencoded text is to use textContent property.

Faster than using innerHTML. And that's without taking into account escaping overhead.

document.body.textContent = 'a  c ';