encode4HTML

gistfile1.js

		encode4HTML:function(str) {
			return str
				//.replace(/\r\n?/g,'\n')
				// normalize newlines - I'm not sure how these
				// are parsed in PC's. In Mac's they're \n's
				//.replace(/(^((?!\n)\s)+|((?!\n)\s)+$)/gm,'')
				// trim each line
				//.replace(/(?!\n)\s+/g,' ')
				// reduce multiple spaces to 2 (like in "a    b")
				//.replace(/^\n+|\n+$/g,'')
				// trim the whole string
				/*
        .replace(/[<>&"']/g,function(a) {
        // replace these signs with encoded versions
            switch (a) {
                case '<'    : return '&lt;';
                case '>'    : return '&gt;';
                case '&'    : return '&amp;';
                case '"'    : return '&quot;';
                case '\''   : return '&apos;';
            }
        })*/
				.replace(/\n{2,}/g, '</p><p><br>')
				// replace 2 or more consecutive empty lines with these
				.replace(/\n/g, '<br />')
				// replace single newline symbols with the <br /> entity
				.replace(/^(.+?)$/, '<p>$1</p>')
				.replace(/&lt;/g, '<')
				.replace(/&gt;/g, '>')

			// wrap all the string into <p> tags
			// if there's at least 1 non-empty character
		}