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Reading html content with without escaping?

I am trying to read the html content using innerHTML. It seems to convert the '<' in the text content to '&lt;' .

I would rather not to. Is there anything in JS that would allow me to render as such

Solution

  • Lodash supports an unescape() function that does this.

    For example,

    // This reads < as &lt;
let html = document.querySelector('.el').innerHTML
// This converts the &lt; back into <
html = _.unescape(html)

    More answers are available in this question: Unescape HTML entities in JavaScript?