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| # entities [](https://npmjs.org/package/entities) [](https://npmjs.org/package/entities) [](http://travis-ci.org/fb55/entities) [](https://coveralls.io/r/fb55/entities)
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| Encode & decode HTML & XML entities with ease & speed.
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| 
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| ## How to…
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| 
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| ### …install `entities`
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| 
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|     npm install entities
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| 
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| ### …use `entities`
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| 
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| ```javascript
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| const entities = require("entities");
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| 
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| //encoding
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| entities.escape("&"); // "&"
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| entities.encodeXML("&"); // "&"
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| entities.encodeHTML("&"); // "&"
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| 
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| //decoding
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| entities.decodeXML("asdf & ÿ ü '"); // "asdf & ÿ ü '"
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| entities.decodeHTML("asdf & ÿ ü '"); // "asdf & ÿ ü '"
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| ```
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| 
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| ## Performance
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| 
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| This is how `entities` compares to other libraries on a very basic benchmark
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| (see `scripts/benchmark.ts`, for 10,000,000 iterations):
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| | Library        | `decode` performance | `encode` performance | Bundle size                                                                |
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| | -------------- | -------------------- | -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| | entities       | 10.809s              | 17.683s              |        |
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| | html-entities  | 14.029s              | 22.670s              |   |
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| | he             | 16.163s              | 44.010s              |              |
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| | parse-entities | 28.507s              | N/A                  |  |
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| 
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| ---
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| 
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| License: BSD-2-Clause
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| 
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| ## Security contact information
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| 
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| To report a security vulnerability, please use the
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| [Tidelift security contact](https://tidelift.com/security). Tidelift will
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| coordinate the fix and disclosure.
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| 
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| ## `entities` for enterprise
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| 
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| Available as part of the Tidelift Subscription
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| 
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| The maintainers of `entities` and thousands of other packages are working with
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| Tidelift to deliver commercial support and maintenance for the open source
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| dependencies you use to build your applications. Save time, reduce risk, and
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| improve code health, while paying the maintainers of the exact dependencies you
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| use.
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| [Learn more.](https://tidelift.com/subscription/pkg/npm-entities?utm_source=npm-entities&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=enterprise&utm_term=repo)
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