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Easily and safely escape HTML in one line

#javascript #html #webdev 
x => Object.assign(document.createElement('div'), { textContent: x }).innerHTML
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True, you could also do it with

x => x.replace(/&/g, "&amp;").replace(/</g, "&lt;").replace(/>/g, "&gt;").replace(/"/g, "&quot;").replace(/'/g, "&#039;")
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or similar, but if you do it the first way you don't have to remember the HTML entities 🙂

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