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Does javascript have an Equivalent to C#s HttpUtility.HtmlEncode?

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JavaScript/jQuery HTML Encoding

I am passing info down to the client as Json and I am generating some HTML from my javascript code. I have a field called name which I pass into the title of an image like this:

  html.push("<img  title='" + person.Name + "' src . . .

the issue is if the person.Name is "Joe O'Mally' as it only shows up as "Joe O" when i hover over the image (because of the ' in the name)

I don't want to strip the ' on the serverside as there are other places where I want to show the exact string on the page.

Is there an Equivalent of HttpUtility.HtmlEncode in javascript that will show the full name in the image title, when I hover of the image?

Solution

  • No but you can write one pretty easily.

    function htmlEnc(s) {
  return s.replace(/&/g, '&amp;')
    .replace(/</g, '&lt;')
    .replace(/>/g, '&gt;')
    .replace(/'/g, '&#39;')
    .replace(/"/g, '&#34;');
}

    I've played with ways of making that faster (basically to do things with one "replace" call) but this performs well enough for most purposes, especially in modern browsers.