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htmlEdit

NAME

String.htmlEdit

FUNCTION

The Javascript function htmlEdit removes HTML entities from a string and replaces them with literal characters, suitable for editing in an input. The characters replaced are ampersand '&', less-than '<', greater-than '>' and non-breaking space '&nbsp;'.

SOURCE

String.prototype.htmlEdit = function() {
    return this.replace(/&/g,'&')
        .replace(/</g,'<')
        .replace(/>/g,'>')
        .replace(/ /g,' ');
}