html

Documentation

Overview

Package html provides functions for escaping and unescaping HTML text.

Index

• func EscapeString(s string) string
• func UnescapeString(s string) string

Examples

• EscapeString
• UnescapeString

Functions

func EscapeString

func EscapeString(s string) string

EscapeString escapes special characters like "<" to become "&lt;". It escapes only five such characters: <, >, &, ' and ". UnescapeString(EscapeString(s)) == s always holds, but the converse isn't always true.

Example

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"html"
)

func main() {
	const s = `"Fran & Freddie's Diner" <tasty@example.com>`
	fmt.Println(html.EscapeString(s))
}

Output:

"Fran & Freddie's Diner" <tasty@example.com>

func UnescapeString

func UnescapeString(s string) string

UnescapeString unescapes entities like "&lt;" to become "<". It unescapes a larger range of entities than EscapeString escapes. For example, "&aacute;" unescapes to "á", as does "&#225;" and "&#xE1;". UnescapeString(EscapeString(s)) == s always holds, but the converse isn't always true.

Example

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"html"
)

func main() {
	const s = `"Fran & Freddie's Diner" <tasty@example.com>`
	fmt.Println(html.UnescapeString(s))
}

Output:

"Fran & Freddie's Diner" <tasty@example.com>