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JavaScript/jQuery HTML Encoding

I have html tags need to be encoded.

<b>test</b>

I need to encode it to :

&lt;b&gt;test&lt;/b&gt;

I am using escape, but it doesn't work.

document.write(escape("<b>test</b>"));

the result I got is 

%3Cb%3Etest%3C/b%3E

this is not what I expected. is there another way to do html encode using javascript?

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    this is NOT a duplicate. an answer is this: str => { let elt = document.createElement('span'); elt.textContent = str; return elt.innerHTML;} Commented Nov 12, 2018 at 20:23
  • document.write(('<b>test</b>').replace(/</g, '&lt;').replace(/>/g, '&gt;')); Commented Apr 18, 2019 at 12:17
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