escape | /html/mod.ts | std@0.224.0

function escape

import { escape } from "https://dotland.deno.dev/std@0.224.0/html/mod.ts";

escape(str: string): string

Escapes text for safe interpolation into HTML text content and quoted attributes.

Examples

Example 1

import { escape } from "https://deno.land/std@0.224.0/html/entities.ts";

escape("<>'&AA"); // "&lt;&gt;&#39;&amp;AA"

// Characters that don't need to be escaped will be left alone,
// even if named HTML entities exist for them.
escape("þð"); // "þð"

Parameters

str: string

Returns

string