Convert HTML Character Entities back to regular text using javascript
You could do something like this: String.prototype.decodeHTML = function() { var map = {“gt”:”>” /* , … */}; return this.replace(/&(#(?:x[0-9a-f]+|\d+)|[a-z]+);?/gi, function($0, $1) { if ($1[0] === “#”) { return String.fromCharCode($1[1].toLowerCase() === “x” ? parseInt($1.substr(2), 16) : parseInt($1.substr(1), 10)); } else { return map.hasOwnProperty($1) ? map[$1] : $0; } }); };