Can I escape HTML special chars in JavaScript?

Question

I want to display text to HTML by a JavaScript function. How can I escape HTML special characters in JavaScript? Is there an API?

Answer 1

function escapeHtml(unsafe) {
    return unsafe
         .replace(/&/g, "&")
         .replace(/</g, "&lt;")
         .replace(/>/g, "&gt;")
         .replace(/"/g, "&quot;")
         .replace(/'/g, "&#039;");
 }