Function escapeHtml

markdown_it/common/utils.py:139–146

Replace special characters "&", "<", ">" and '"' to HTML-safe sequences.

(raw: str)

def escapeHtml(raw: str) -> str:
    """Replace special characters "&", "<", ">" and '"&#x27; to HTML-safe sequences."""
    # like html.escape, but without escaping single quotes
    raw = raw.replace("&", "&amp;")  # Must be done first!
    raw = raw.replace("<", "&lt;")
    raw = raw.replace(">", "&gt;")
    raw = raw.replace('"', "&quot;")
    return raw


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