Given a string with HTML entities, how to decode the HTML entities?

Question

I have a string like so:

var x = "as dsa sad asd &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;asd asd asd asd asd asd asd"

How can I decode that string to get just:

"as dsa sad asd asd asd asd asd asd asd asd"

Thanks

I'd be curious to know where the string comes from and then were it is being sent. You may not need to do any decoding depending on your use case. — Greg Pettit, Nov 18 '11 at 06:57
Possible duplicate of [Jquery decode HTML entities](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1147359/jquery-decode-html-entities). — Frédéric Hamidi, Nov 18 '11 at 06:59
var decoded = $("
").html(encodedStr).text(); - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1147359/jquery-decode-html-entities/2419664#2419664 — sente, Nov 18 '11 at 07:02

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 18 '11 at 06:58

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Try this

var encoded = "as dsa sad asd &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;asd asd asd asd asd asd asd";
alert(encoded);
var decoded = $('<textarea />').html(encoded).val();
alert(decoded);

or

var decoded = $("<div/>").html(encoded).text();

answered Nov 18 '11 at 06:58

Rohan Patil

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