character-entities-legacy

What is character-entities-legacy?

The character-entities-legacy npm package provides a collection of character entity references (such as & for an ampersand) that were used in older versions of HTML (up to HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0). These entities are useful for encoding special characters in HTML to ensure they are displayed correctly in a web browser. The package can be used to reference these entities in a project without having to remember the specific codes.

What are character-entities-legacy's main functionalities?

Character Entity References

This package includes a list of character entity references for legacy HTML, which can be used to encode special characters in web documents.

"©" // Represents the copyright symbol (©)

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README

character-entities-legacy

List of legacy HTML named character references that don’t need a trailing semicolon.

Contents

• What is this?
• When should I use this?
• Install
• Use
• API
  • characterEntitiesLegacy
• Types
• Compatibility
• Security
• Related
• Contribute
• License

What is this?

This is a list of certain named character references, that due to legacy reasons, don’t need a trailing semicolon in HTML. For example, &copy is perfectly fine for ©!

When should I use this?

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.

Install

This package is ESM only. In Node.js (version 12.20+, 14.14+, or 16.0+), install with npm:

npm install character-entities-legacy

In Deno with Skypack:

import {characterEntitiesLegacy} from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/character-entities-legacy@2?dts'

In browsers with Skypack:

<script type="module">
  import {characterEntitiesLegacy} from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/character-entities-legacy@2?min'
</script>

Use

import {characterEntitiesLegacy} from 'character-entities-legacy'

console.log(characterEntitiesLegacy.includes('copy')) // => true
console.log(characterEntitiesLegacy.includes('frac34')) // => true
console.log(characterEntitiesLegacy.includes('sup1')) // => true

API

This package exports the following identifiers: characterEntitiesLegacy. There is no default export.

characterEntitiesLegacy

List of (case sensitive) legacy character entity names. wooorm/character-entities holds their decoded values. See whatwg/html for more info.

Types

This package is fully typed with TypeScript.

Compatibility

This package is at least compatible with all maintained versions of Node.js. As of now, that is Node.js 12.20+, 14.14+, and 16.0+. It also works in Deno and modern browsers.

Security

This package is safe.

Related

• wooorm/parse-entities — parse (decode) character references
• wooorm/stringify-entities — serialize (encode) character references
• wooorm/character-entities — info on character entities
• wooorm/character-entities-html4 — info on HTML4 character entities
• wooorm/character-reference-invalid — info on invalid numeric character references

Contribute

Yes please! See How to Contribute to Open Source.

License

MIT © Titus Wormer