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Convert to HTML entities

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String.prototype.htmlEntities = function () {
   return this.replace(/&/g,'&amp;').replace(/</g,'&lt;').replace(/>/g,'&gt;');
};
 
 
//Usage 1:
var tmp = '<html><head></head>';
var safe= tmp.htmlEntities(); // Returns 
"&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt;"