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Asked: 2026-06-14T09:05:30+00:00

How to decode HTML entities for XHTML application? For example, $(<div/>).html(&middot;).text() will raise an

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How to decode HTML entities for XHTML application?

For example, $("<div/>").html("&middot;").text() will raise an JavaScript error.

Error is:

[Exception... "An invalid or illegal string was specified" code: "12" nsresult: "0x8053000c (SyntaxError)"

EDIT: XHTML means real XHTML application, with application/xhtml+xml Content-type.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can either use document.createEntityReference or escape the characters unsuitable for your file encoding at JavaScript code’s level (\uxxxx); but, as pointed in your comment, document.createEntityReference doesn’t work on Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/DOM/document.createEntityReference

    Alternatively, you can use a custom library such as php.js’s html_entity_decode: http://phpjs.org/functions/html_entity_decode/

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