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character-entities
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- Version published
- Weekly downloads
- 9.8M
- increased by1.31%
- Maintainers
- 1
- Install size
- 47.6 kB
- Created
- Weekly downloads
Package description
What is character-entities?
The character-entities npm package provides a comprehensive list of character entity references (like & for an ampersand or < for a less-than sign) that can be used in HTML and XML. This package is particularly useful for encoding or decoding character entities in text processing, ensuring that special characters are correctly represented in web pages or XML documents.
What are character-entities's main functionalities?
Accessing Character Entities
This feature allows you to access the character entity for special characters like ampersand (&) and less-than (<) sign. The code sample demonstrates how to import the package and retrieve the character entities for ampersand and less-than sign.
"use strict";
const characterEntities = require('character-entities');
console.log(characterEntities.amp); // Output: '&'
console.log(characterEntities.lt); // Output: '<'Other packages similar to character-entities
he
The 'he' package is a robust HTML entity encoder/decoder written in JavaScript. Unlike character-entities, which primarily provides a list of character entities, 'he' offers functions to encode and decode HTML entities, making it more versatile for handling HTML content.
entities
Similar to 'he', the 'entities' package offers encoding and decoding functionalities for HTML entities. It supports a wide range of entities and provides more comprehensive parsing and serialization options compared to character-entities, which is more focused on providing a list of entities.
Readme
character-entities
HTML character entity information.
Install
npm:
npm install character-entities
Use
var characterEntities = require('character-entities')
console.log(characterEntities.AElig) // => 'Æ'
console.log(characterEntities.aelig) // => 'æ'
console.log(characterEntities.amp) // => '&'
API
characterEntities
Mapping between (case-sensitive) character entity names to replacements.
Support
See html.spec.whatwg.org.
Related
character-entities-html4— HTML 4 character entity infocharacter-entities-legacy— Legacy character entity infoparse-entities— Parse HTML character referencesstringify-entities— Stringify HTML character references
License
FAQs
Map of named character references
The npm package character-entities receives a total of 7,900,339 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.
Last updated on 24 Jan 2020
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