| 1 | /**
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| 2 | * Escape string for use in HTML
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| 3 | */
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| 5 | /**
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| 6 | * Escape special characters in the given string of text, such that it can be interpolated in HTML content.
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| 7 | * This function will escape the following characters: `"`, `'`, `&`, `<`, and `>`.
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| 8 | *
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| 9 | * *Note* that the escaped value is only suitable for being interpolated into HTML as the text content of
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| 10 | * elements in which the tag does not have different escaping mechanisms (it cannot be placed inside
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| 11 | * `<style>` or `<script>`, for example, as those content bodies are not HTML, but CSS and JavaScript,
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| 12 | * respectively; these are known as "raw text elements" in the HTML standard).
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| 13 | *
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| 14 | * *Note* when using the escaped value within a tag, it is only suitable as the value of an attribute,
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| 15 | * where the value is quoted with either a double quote character (`"`) or a single quote character (`'`).
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| 16 | */
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| 17 | declare function escapeHTML(text?: string | null): string;
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| 19 | export = escapeHTML;
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