How to encode text into html with JQuery

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I have a textarea from I got the value like this $(ctrl).val() then I receive this %3ch1%3eMy System%3c/h1%3e so I've been trying to encode this value into this:

<h1>My System</h1>

But I don't know how.

I found on internet many examples like this

jQuery('<div />').html('Some text with &lt;div&gt;html&lt;/div&gt;').text()

But no success! The decode text is different.

Ishan Chatterjee · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-01 18:54:35Z

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It's inherently unsafe/insecure to randomly unescape HTML content unless you know where its coming from (fully).

In any case:

unescape('%3ch1%3eMy System%3c/h1%3e') = "<h1>My System</h1>"

answered May 1, 2014 at 18:54

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Ishan Chatterjee Over a year ago

Note that unescape is officially deprecated, in this instance you can use replace that method call with decodeURIComponent() to the same (but actually, it's not exactly the same) effect.

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