You can enter the tab character (U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION, commonly known as TAB or HT) using the character reference 	. It is equivalent to the tab character as such. Thus, from the HTML viewpoint, there is no need to “escape” it using the character reference; but you may do so e.g. if your editing program … Read more
There’s a class that will do this in System.Web. Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Web [System.Web.HttpUtility]::HtmlEncode(‘something <somthing else>’) You can even go the other way: [System.Web.HttpUtility]::HtmlDecode(‘something <something else>’)
At the same time $sce service was introduced (angular 1.2), support for ng-bind-html-unsafe directive was dropped. The new directive is ng-bind-html. If you use this, the code should work as documented: <div ng-bind-html=”mail.htmlbody”></div>
The W3C released an official response about when to use and when not to use character escapes which you can find here. As they are also the group that is in charge of the HTML specification, I think it’s best to follow their advice. From the section “When to Use Escapes” Syntax characters. There are … Read more
EDIT: This answer was posted a long ago, and the htmlDecode function introduced a XSS vulnerability. It has been modified changing the temporary element from a div to a textarea reducing the XSS chance. But nowadays, I would encourage you to use the DOMParser API as suggested in other anwswer. I use these functions: function … Read more
In Spring you can escape the html from JSP pages generated by <form> tags. This closes off a lot avenues for XSS attacks, and can be done automatically in three ways: For the entire application in the web.xml file: <context-param> <param-name>defaultHtmlEscape</param-name> <param-value>true</param-value> </context-param> For all forms on a given page in the file itself: <spring:htmlEscape … Read more
Try recode (archived page; GitHub mirror; Debian page): $ echo ‘<’ |recode html..ascii < Install on Linux and similar Unix-y systems: $ sudo apt-get install recode Install on Mac OS using: $ brew install recode
If you’re inserting text content in your document in a location where text content is expected1, you typically only need to escape the same characters as you would in XML. Inside of an element, this just includes the entity escape ampersand & and the element delimiter less-than and greater-than signs < >: & becomes & < … Read more
< stands for the less-than sign: < > stands for the greater-than sign: > ≤ stands for the less-than or equals sign: ≤ ≥ stands for the greater-than or equals sign: ≥
EDIT: This answer was posted a long ago, and the htmlDecode function introduced a XSS vulnerability. It has been modified changing the temporary element from a div to a textarea reducing the XSS chance. But nowadays, I would encourage you to use the DOMParser API as suggested in other anwswer. I use these functions: function … Read more