Question

I have a chat application wirtten in javascript, when a user enters an html code like

 <button>click</button> 

a button appears on chat. I use this code

 if(message.indexOf('<button') != -1)
            {   
              message = message.replace(message, '&#45;'); 
            }

but this just replaces the < button

with a blank space, I want it to be displayed as text and not an actual button.

Thanks

Answer 1

Your general encode procedure here would be:

value = value.toString().replace(/</g, "&lt;").replace(/>/g, "&gt;").replace(/'/g, "&#39;").replace(/"/g, "&#34;");