module HTML
Overview
Provides HTML escaping and unescaping methods.
For HTML parsing see module XML, especially XML.parse_html.
NOTE  To use HTML, you must explicitly import it with require "html"
Defined in:
html.crhtml/entities.cr
Class Method Summary
- 
        .escape(string : String, io : IO) : Nil
        
          Same as .escape(string)but outputs the result to the given io.
- 
        .escape(string : Bytes, io : IO) : Nil
        
          Same as .escape(String, IO)but acceptsBytesinstead ofString.
- 
        .escape(string : String) : String
        
          Escapes special characters in HTML, namely &,<,>,"and'.
- 
        .unescape(string : String) : String
        
          Returns a string where named and numeric character references (e.g. 
Class Method Detail
Same as .escape(string) but outputs the result to
the given io.
require "html"
io = IO::Memory.new
HTML.escape("Crystal & You", io) # => nil
io.to_s                          # => "Crystal & You"Same as .escape(String, IO) but accepts Bytes instead of String.
The slice is assumed to be valid UTF-8.
Escapes special characters in HTML, namely
&, <, >, " and '.
require "html"
HTML.escape("Crystal & You") # => "Crystal & You"Returns a string where named and numeric character references (e.g. >, >, >) in string are replaced with the corresponding unicode characters. This method decodes all HTML5 entities including those without a trailing semicolon (such as "©").
require "html"
HTML.unescape("Crystal & You") # => "Crystal & You"