character-entities
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Package description
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.
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: '<'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.
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
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+, or 16.0+), install with npm:
npm install character-entities
In Deno with Skypack:
import {characterEntities} from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/character-entities@2?dts'
In browsers with Skypack:
<script type="module">
import {characterEntities} from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/character-entities@2?min'
</script>
import {characterEntities} from 'character-entities'
console.log(characterEntities.AElig) // => 'Æ'
console.log(characterEntities.aelig) // => 'æ'
console.log(characterEntities.amp) // => '&'
This package exports the following identifiers: 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+, and 16.0+. 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.
FAQs
Map of named character references
The npm package character-entities receives a total of 9,407,833 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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