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

HTML legacy character entity information: for legacy reasons some character entities are not required to have a trailing semicolon: &copy is perfectly okay for ©.

Install

npm:

npm install character-entities-legacy

Use

var characterEntitiesLegacy = require('character-entities-legacy')

console.log(characterEntitiesLegacy.copy) // => '©'
console.log(characterEntitiesLegacy.frac34) // => '¾'
console.log(characterEntitiesLegacy.sup1) // => '¹'

API

characterEntitiesLegacy

Mapping between (case-sensitive) legacy character entity names to replacements.

Support

See whatwg/html.

Related

• character-entities — HTML character entity info
• character-entities-html4 — HTML 4 character entity info
• parse-entities — Parse HTML character references
• stringify-entities — Serialize HTML character references

License

MIT © Titus Wormer