Javascript html decoding

Question

When I receive html text by ajax in asp.net application it looks like:

&lt;span%20style='color:green;font-weight:bold'&gt;%20Text%20Msg&lt;/span&gt;

how is it possible in javascript decode that text to normal html?

<span style='color:green;font-weight:bold'> Text Msg </span>

Thanks!

There is no technical reason it should look like that - especially since it looks like some strange mixture of HTML and URL encoding which neither does JSON require. You should check you server-side script and find out why it's being encoded and turn it off. — RoToRa, Jan 14 '11 at 15:52
Are you using an XSLT to generate the markup? What is generating this code? — epascarello, Jan 14 '11 at 16:00
It looks like the string is double encoded: first Html Encoded and then URL encoded. Why is that so? — Salman A, Jan 14 '11 at 16:00

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 14 '11 at 15:50

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Nice function here that does it for you - http://phpjs.org/functions/htmlspecialchars_decode:427

answered Jan 14 '11 at 15:50

Matt Asbury

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 14 '11 at 16:10

You are probably best suited with finding a server side solution as already mentioned in the comments, since this seems like a server side problem.

If you for some reason wish to do this client side anyway, here is a solution:

var str = "&lt;span%20style='color:green;font-weight:bold'&gt;%20Text%20Msg&lt;/span&gt;";
var fixedStr = decodeURIComponent(str).replace(/&lt;/g,'<').replace(/&gt;/g,'>');

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