escape.js

var baseToString = require('../internal/baseToString'),
    escapeHtmlChar = require('../internal/escapeHtmlChar');

/** Used to match HTML entities and HTML characters. */
var reUnescapedHtml = /[&<>"'`]/g,
    reHasUnescapedHtml = RegExp(reUnescapedHtml.source);

/**
 * Converts the characters "&", "<", ">", '"', "'", and "\`", in `string` to
 * their corresponding HTML entities.
 *
 * **Note:** No other characters are escaped. To escape additional characters
 * use a third-party library like [_he_](https://mths.be/he).
 *
 * Though the ">" character is escaped for symmetry, characters like
 * ">" and "/" don't need escaping in HTML and have no special meaning
 * unless they're part of a tag or unquoted attribute value.
 * See [Mathias Bynens's article](https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/ambiguous-ampersands)
 * (under "semi-related fun fact") for more details.
 *
 * Backticks are escaped because in Internet Explorer < 9, they can break out
 * of attribute values or HTML comments. See [#59](https://html5sec.org/#59),
 * [#102](https://html5sec.org/#102), [#108](https://html5sec.org/#108), and
 * [#133](https://html5sec.org/#133) of the [HTML5 Security Cheatsheet](https://html5sec.org/)
 * for more details.
 *
 * When working with HTML you should always [quote attribute values](http://wonko.com/post/html-escaping)
 * to reduce XSS vectors.
 *
 * @static
 * @memberOf _
 * @category String
 * @param {string} [string=''] The string to escape.
 * @returns {string} Returns the escaped string.
 * @example
 *
 * _.escape('fred, barney, & pebbles');
 * // => 'fred, barney, &amp; pebbles'
 */
function escape(string) {
  // Reset `lastIndex` because in IE < 9 `String#replace` does not.
  string = baseToString(string);
  return (string && reHasUnescapedHtml.test(string))
    ? string.replace(reUnescapedHtml, escapeHtmlChar)
    : string;
}

module.exports = escape;