Simple HTML encoding/decoding using jQuery

gistfile1.js

// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1219860/javascript-jquery-html-encoding

function htmlEncode(value){
  return $('<div/>').text(value).html();
}

function htmlDecode(value){
  return $('<div/>').html(value).text();
}

A more reliable method is to use .replace to replace the problematic characters, as shown in this example and used by Angular. See this article for more details.