html-entities

Fastest HTML entities library.

Comes with both TypeScript and Flow types.

Installation

1$ npm install html-entities

Usage

encode(text, options)

Encodes text replacing HTML special characters (<>&"') and/or other character ranges depending on mode option value.

1import {encode} from 'html-entities';
2
3encode('< > " \' & © ∆');
4// -> '&lt; &gt; &quot; &apos; &amp; © ∆'
5
6encode('< ©', {mode: 'nonAsciiPrintable'});
7// -> '&lt; &copy;'
8
9encode('< ©', {mode: 'nonAsciiPrintable', level: 'xml'});
10// -> '&lt; &#169;'
11
12encode('< > " \' & ©', {mode: 'nonAsciiPrintableOnly', level: 'xml'});
13// -> '< > " \' & &#169;'

Options:

level

• all alias to html5 (default).
• html5 uses HTML5 named references.
• html4 uses HTML4 named references.
• xml uses XML named references.

mode

• specialChars encodes only HTML special characters (default).
• nonAscii encodes HTML special characters and everything outside the ASCII character range.
• nonAsciiPrintable encodes HTML special characters and everything outiside of the ASCII printable characters.
• nonAsciiPrintableOnly everything outiside of the ASCII printable characters keeping HTML special characters intact.
• extensive encodes all non-printable characters, non-ASCII characters and all characters with named references.

numeric

• decimal uses decimal numbers when encoding html entities. i.e. © (default).
• hexadecimal uses hexadecimal numbers when encoding html entities. i.e. ©.

decode(text, options)

Decodes text replacing entities to characters. Unknown entities are left as is.

1import {decode} from 'html-entities';
2
3decode('< > " ' & © ∆');
4// -> '< > " \' & © ∆'
5
6decode('&copy;', {level: 'html5'});
7// -> '©'
8
9decode('&copy;', {level: 'xml'});
10// -> '&copy;'

Options:

level

• all alias to html5 (default).
• html5 uses HTML5 named references.
• html4 uses HTML4 named references.
• xml uses XML named references.

scope

• body emulates behavior of browser when parsing tag bodies: entities without semicolon are also replaced (default).
• attribute emulates behavior of browser when parsing tag attributes: entities without semicolon are replaced when not followed by equality sign =.
• strict ignores entities without semicolon.

decodeEntity(text, options)

Decodes a single HTML entity. Unknown entitiy is left as is.

1import {decodeEntity} from 'html-entities';
2
3decodeEntity('<');
4// -> '<'
5
6decodeEntity('&copy;', {level: 'html5'});
7// -> '©'
8
9decodeEntity('&copy;', {level: 'xml'});
10// -> '&copy;'

Options:

level

• all alias to html5 (default).
• html5 uses HTML5 named references.
• html4 uses HTML4 named references.
• xml uses XML named references.

Performance

Statistically significant comparison with other libraries using benchmark.js. Results by this library are marked with *. The source code of the benchmark is available at benchmark/benchmark.ts.

Common

    Initialization / Load speed

        #1: he x 516 ops/sec ±5.71% (78 runs sampled)
      * #2: html-entities x 407 ops/sec ±5.64% (81 runs sampled)
        #3: entities x 352 ops/sec ±4.16% (80 runs sampled)

HTML5

    Encode test

      * #1: html-entities.encode - html5, extensive x 437,236 ops/sec ±0.90% (98 runs sampled)
        #2: entities.encodeHTML x 335,714 ops/sec ±0.87% (92 runs sampled)

    Encode non-ASCII test

      * #1: html-entities.encode - html5, nonAscii x 749,246 ops/sec ±0.61% (96 runs sampled)
        #2: entities.encodeNonAsciiHTML x 706,984 ops/sec ±1.06% (98 runs sampled)
      * #3: html-entities.encode - html5, nonAsciiPrintable x 691,193 ops/sec ±4.47% (90 runs sampled)
        #4: he.encode x 141,105 ops/sec ±0.87% (92 runs sampled)

    Decode test

        #1: entities.decodeHTML x 678,595 ops/sec ±1.28% (92 runs sampled)
        #2: entities.decodeHTMLStrict x 684,372 ops/sec ±2.76% (82 runs sampled)
      * #3: html-entities.decode - html5, strict x 485,664 ops/sec ±0.80% (94 runs sampled)
      * #4: html-entities.decode - html5, body x 463,074 ops/sec ±1.11% (93 runs sampled)
      * #5: html-entities.decode - html5, attribute x 456,185 ops/sec ±2.24% (91 runs sampled)
        #6: he.decode x 302,668 ops/sec ±2.73% (90 runs sampled)

HTML4

    Encode test

      * #1: html-entities.encode - html4, nonAscii x 737,475 ops/sec ±1.04% (95 runs sampled)
      * #2: html-entities.encode - html4, nonAsciiPrintable x 649,866 ops/sec ±4.28% (79 runs sampled)
      * #3: html-entities.encode - html4, extensive x 202,337 ops/sec ±3.66% (64 runs sampled)

    Decode test

      * #1: html-entities.decode - html4, attribute x 529,674 ops/sec ±0.90% (90 runs sampled)
      * #2: html-entities.decode - html4, body x 499,135 ops/sec ±2.27% (80 runs sampled)
      * #3: html-entities.decode - html4, strict x 489,806 ops/sec ±4.37% (84 runs sampled)

XML

    Encode test

      * #1: html-entities.encode - xml, nonAscii x 823,097 ops/sec ±0.75% (81 runs sampled)
      * #2: html-entities.encode - xml, nonAsciiPrintable x 764,638 ops/sec ±0.93% (93 runs sampled)
        #3: entities.encodeXML x 672,186 ops/sec ±1.51% (92 runs sampled)
      * #4: html-entities.encode - xml, extensive x 376,870 ops/sec ±0.76% (77 runs sampled)

    Decode test

        #1: entities.decodeXML x 930,758 ops/sec ±2.90% (90 runs sampled)
      * #2: html-entities.decode - xml, body x 617,321 ops/sec ±0.74% (83 runs sampled)
      * #3: html-entities.decode - xml, attribute x 611,598 ops/sec ±0.50% (92 runs sampled)
      * #4: html-entities.decode - xml, strict x 607,191 ops/sec ±2.30% (85 runs sampled)

Escaping

    Escape test

        #1: entities.escapeUTF8 x 1,930,874 ops/sec ±0.80% (95 runs sampled)
        #2: he.escape x 1,717,522 ops/sec ±0.75% (84 runs sampled)
      * #3: html-entities.encode - xml, specialChars x 1,611,374 ops/sec ±1.30% (92 runs sampled)
        #4: entities.escape x 673,710 ops/sec ±1.30% (94 runs sampled)

License

MIT

Security contact information

To report a security vulnerability, please use the Tidelift security contact. Tidelift will coordinate the fix and disclosure.

html-entities for enterprise

Available as part of the Tidelift Subscription

The maintainers of html-entities and thousands of other packages are working with Tidelift to deliver commercial support and maintenance for the open source dependencies you use to build your applications. Save time, reduce risk, and improve code health, while paying the maintainers of the exact dependencies you use. Learn more.