Having Issue On Replace Function

Question

Can you please let me know why I am not able to replace / with > in this example

var str = document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML; 
    var res = str.replace('&#47;', ">");
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = res;

<p id="demo">Change &#47;</p>

taxicala · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-03 18:11:53Z

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Because / is getting translated to the real character instead (/). Try as follows:

var str = document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML; 
    var res = str.replace('/', ">");
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = res;

<p id="demo">Change &#47;</p>

answered Jul 3, 2015 at 18:11

taxicala

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