character-entities
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Map of named character references.
This is a map of named character references in HTML (latest) to the characters they represent.
Maybe when you’re writing an HTML parser or minifier, but otherwise probably
never!
Even then, it might be better to use parse-entities
or
stringify-entities
.
This package is ESM only. In Node.js (version 12.20+, 14.14+, 16.0+, 18.0+), install with npm:
npm install character-entities
In Deno with esm.sh
:
import {characterEntities} from 'https://esm.sh/character-entities@2'
In browsers with esm.sh
:
<script type="module">
import {characterEntities} from 'https://esm.sh/character-entities@2?bundle'
</script>
import {characterEntities} from 'character-entities'
console.log(characterEntities.AElig) // => 'Æ'
console.log(characterEntities.aelig) // => 'æ'
console.log(characterEntities.amp) // => '&'
This package exports the identifier characterEntities
.
There is no default export.
Mapping between (case-sensitive) character entity names to replacements.
See html.spec.whatwg.org
for more info.
This package is fully typed with TypeScript.
This package is at least compatible with all maintained versions of Node.js. As of now, that is Node.js 12.20+, 14.14+, 16.0+, and 18.0+. It also works in Deno and modern browsers.
This package is safe.
wooorm/parse-entities
— parse (decode) character referenceswooorm/stringify-entities
— serialize (encode) character referenceswooorm/character-entities-html4
— info on named character references in HTML 4character-reference-invalid
— info on invalid numeric character referencescharacter-entities-legacy
— info on legacy named character referencesYes please! See How to Contribute to Open Source.
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Map of named character references
The npm package character-entities receives a total of 8,534,744 weekly downloads. As such, character-entities popularity was classified as popular.
We found that character-entities demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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