When dealing with strings containing HTML tags, sanitizing and escaping them for security reasons is crucial. This involves replacing suspicious characters like '<', '>', and '&' with their corresponding HTML entities: '<', '>', and '&'.
Traditional approaches like regular expressions (e.g., the 'safe_tags' function) can introduce a noticeable lag when processing large volumes of strings. To address this performance challenge, an alternative solution emerges: leveraging the browser's own HTML parsing capabilities.
The method involves creating a
