Javascript decoding html entities

javascript, jquery

Solution

var text = '&lt;p&gt;name&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:xx-small;"&gt;ajde&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;da&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;';
var decoded = $('<textarea/>').html(text).text();
alert(decoded);

This sets the innerHTML of a new element (not appended to the page), causing jQuery to decode it into HTML, which is then pulled back out with .text().

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Problem

Possible Duplicate: How to decode HTML entities using jQuery? I want to convert this text: ``` "<p>name</p><p><span style="font-size:xx-small;">ajde</span></p><p><em>da</em></p>" ``` to html, with tags and everything in Javascript or Jquery. How to do this?

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