Encoding string to HTML safe characters

[Alex]

Is there an easy way to encode in javascript a string to another string
that would have HTML safe characters like & to $amp; and such?

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Alex wrote:

Is there an easy way to encode in javascript a string to another string
that would have HTML safe characters like & to $amp; and such?

^
function htmlEncode(s)
{
return s.replace(/&(?!\w+([;\s]|$))/g, "&")
.replace(/</g, "&lt;").replace(/>/g, "&gt;");
}

Everything else is "HTML safe" already. You just need to declare the
proper encoding properly.
PointedEars

[Alex]

Thank you, your code was very helpful.