Re: Coding and decoding HTML entities

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Dennis Marks wrote:
Is there a way in Javascript to convert from a character to its entity and from its entity to a character? I wish to do it in a form. For example someone enters ♥ into the form and a heart is shown in the output.

Well if you are talking about JavaScript used in the browser in a HTML document then innerHTML helps e.g.
var span = document.createElement('span');
span.innerHTML = '♥';
someElement.appendChild(span);

> Also the reverse where a heart in entered into the form and
♥ is displayed.

For that you would need to set up some data structure that maps characters to entity names.

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