character-entities-legacy
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Package description
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.
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 (©)The 'entities' package is a more comprehensive library for encoding and decoding HTML entities. It supports all the latest HTML5 entities and provides functions for both encoding and decoding text. It is more feature-rich compared to character-entities-legacy, which focuses on legacy entities.
The 'he' package (short for HTML entities) is a robust HTML entity encoder/decoder written in JavaScript. It supports all HTML5 entities and has the ability to encode/decode to/from any character set. It is more modern and feature-complete than character-entities-legacy.
Readme
HTML legacy character entity information: for legacy reasons some character
entities are not required to have a trailing semicolon: © is perfectly
okay for ©.
npm:
npm install character-entities-legacy
var characterEntitiesLegacy = require('character-entities-legacy')
console.log(characterEntitiesLegacy.copy) // => '©'
console.log(characterEntitiesLegacy.frac34) // => '¾'
console.log(characterEntitiesLegacy.sup1) // => '¹'
characterEntitiesLegacyMapping between (case-sensitive) legacy character entity names to replacements.
See whatwg/html.
character-entities
— HTML character entity infocharacter-entities-html4
— HTML 4 character entity infoparse-entities
— Parse HTML character referencesstringify-entities
— Serialize HTML character referencesFAQs
List of legacy HTML named character references that don’t need a trailing semicolon
The npm package character-entities-legacy receives a total of 6,960,884 weekly downloads. As such, character-entities-legacy popularity was classified as popular.
We found that character-entities-legacy 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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