public Method

TagHelper.escape_once(html)

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Returns an escaped version of html without affecting existing escaped entities.

Examples

escape_once("1 > 2 &amp; 3")
# => "1 &lt; 2 &amp; 3"

escape_once("&lt;&lt; Accept & Checkout")
# => "&lt;&lt; Accept &amp; Checkout"

Source Code

# File action_view/helpers/tag_helper.rb, line 101
def escape_once(html)
  html.to_s.gsub(/[\"><]|&(?!([a-zA-Z]+|(#\d+));)/) { |special| ERB::Util::HTML_ESCAPE[special] }
end

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TagHelper.escape_once(html)

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