| # ent | |
| Encode and decode HTML entities | |
| [](http://ci.testling.com/substack/node-ent) | |
| [](http://travis-ci.org/substack/node-ent) | |
| # example | |
| ``` js | |
| var ent = require('ent'); | |
| console.log(ent.encode('<span>©moo</span>')) | |
| console.log(ent.decode('π & ρ')); | |
| ``` | |
| ``` | |
| <span>©moo</span> | |
| π & ρ | |
| ``` | |
|  | |
| # methods | |
| ``` js | |
| var ent = require('ent'); | |
| var encode = require('ent/encode'); | |
| var decode = require('ent/decode'); | |
| ``` | |
| ## encode(str, opts={}) | |
| Escape unsafe characters in `str` with html entities. | |
| By default, entities are encoded with numeric decimal codes. | |
| If `opts.numeric` is false or `opts.named` is true, encoding will used named | |
| codes like `π`. | |
| If `opts.special` is set to an Object, the key names will be forced | |
| to be encoded (defaults to forcing: `<>'"&`). For example: | |
| ``` js | |
| console.log(encode('hello', { special: { l: true } })); | |
| ``` | |
| ``` | |
| hello | |
| ``` | |
| ## decode(str) | |
| Convert html entities in `str` back to raw text. | |
| # credits | |
| HTML entity tables shamelessly lifted from perl's | |
| [HTML::Entities](http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GAAS/HTML-Parser-3.68/lib/HTML/Entities.pm) | |
| # install | |
| With [npm](https://npmjs.org) do: | |
| ``` | |
| npm install ent | |
| ``` | |
| # license | |
| MIT |