removeHTMLentities

description

Introduced 3.1.0

Removes or replaces HTML entities from a string

requires

• nothing

parameters

• str - required - string to remove HTML entities from
• replaceMode - optional - boolean - defaults to false - switch to replace mode from remove mode

returns

• string minus non printable characters

example usage:

let str = removeHTMLentities(`<div><img src="/foo/bar.jpg" /></div>`); // 'divimg src=/foo/bar.jpg //div'

With replaceMode set to true:

let str = removeHTMLentities(`<div><img src="/foo/bar.jpg" /></div>`, true); // '&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/foo/bar.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;'