html entity decode

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anybody have a browser compatible html entity decoding function?

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Found this online and it seems like they all use this concept.

function html_entity_decode(str)
{
    //jd-tech.net
    var  tarea=document.createElement('textarea');
    tarea.innerHTML = str; return tarea.value;
    tarea.parentNode.removeChild(tarea);
}

apparently the innerHTML is giving me a runtime error on ie, i can only use value. But value doesn't decode the html entities.

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Found a solution:

function html_entity_decode(str)
{
    try
	{
		var  tarea=document.createElement('textarea');
		tarea.innerHTML = str; return tarea.value;
		tarea.parentNode.removeChild(tarea);
	}
	catch(e)
	{
		//for IE add <div id="htmlconverter" style="display:none;"></div> to the page
		document.getElementById("htmlconverter").innerHTML = '<textarea id="innerConverter">' + str + '</textarea>';
		var content = document.getElementById("innerConverter").value;
		document.getElementById("htmlconverter").innerHTML = "";
		return content;
	}
}

this way you can still add the innerHTML, but to a div instead, and it also adds a textarea with it so it can be retrieved by the value of the textarea. then it clears out the div and leaves it blank.
Cat skinned.