I'm just passing this on, as I didn't do it, I just found it.
Over here is a pretty slick way to unescape HTML. I ran into the need for this when I was working on some inline-editing code. I wanted to reset the contents of the textarea to the contents of a pre tag. The contents of the tag are of course escaped, but I want them to be proper HTML in the textarea. Using this trick allowed me unescape the contents easily and stuff it back in the textarea.
My function:
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| String.prototype.unescape = function() { | |
| var node = document.createElement('div'); | |
| node.innerHTML = this; | |
| if('undefined' == typeof(node.innerText)) { | |
| return node.textContent; // FF | |
| } | |
| return node.innerText; // IE | |
| } |
Good Stuff.™