CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
Converts an HTML-escaped string back to normal HTML.

Return Values:
Returns a decoded string

Example:

<cfoutput>
#htmlDecode('Hello&lt;br/&gt;World!')#
</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

/**
 * Inverse of HTMLEditFormat, similar to URLDecode
 * v1.0 by Adam Tuttle
 * 
 * @param HTML      A string to decode (Required)
 * @return Returns a decoded string 
 * @author Adam Tuttle (adam@fusiongrokker.com) 
 * @version 1.0, July 24, 2013 
 */
function htmlDecode(HTML){
    return replaceList(arguments.HTML, "&lt;,&gt;,&amp;,&quot;", '<,>,&,"');
}