jQuery find and sanitize

Question

I am needing to, on form submit, look at a certain textarea being submitted and check for all <code> tags. Then take everything between a <code> tag set and run this function on this function on it:

function escapeHtml(unsafe) {
return unsafe
    .replace(/&/g, "&amp;")
    .replace(/</g, "&lt;")
    .replace(/>/g, "&gt;")
    .replace(/"/g, "&quot;")
    .replace(/'/g, "&#039;");
}

I was thinking of using :

$("code").each(function (){ });

Will that work? I'm testing it now but would like to know if there is a better way.

Not like this: `<code></code>` But in the textarea you view on a website I'd be typing the tags in there. — Cow, Sep 18 '12 at 18:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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Look at same questions Fastest method to escape HTML tags as HTML entities? OR Escape HTML using jQuery. You can choose answer from one of them.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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answered Sep 18 '12 at 17:36

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