Lodash.js – escape() function
By Bartłomiej Bartel
A simple Lodash.js example of the escape() function, which converts special characters to their HTML entities.
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<script src="js/lodash.min.js"></script>
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<script>
var firstDiv = document.getElementById('first');
var secondDiv = document.getElementById('second');
firstValue = "à, Ô, ã, Ó";
firstDiv.innerHTML = "Having a string with special characters:<br><br>";
firstDiv.innerHTML += JSON.stringify(firstValue);
var result = _.escape(firstValue);
secondDiv.innerHTML = "...we will transform the special characters to their HTML respective entities with the 'escape' function... and we get:<br><br>";
secondDiv.innerHTML += JSON.stringify(result);
</script>
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