How will I write special characters written in my HTML code in Javascript?

Question

I wrote a special character in my HTML - &#873 to get a square root symbol. I am trying to get that button using innerText using javascript but it doesn't mean to work.

```else if (x.target.innerText == "&#8730"){
console.log("H")
    }
```

check out the code

Answer 1

Browsers normalise HTML when they convert it to a DOM.
so it is better to compare the text:

if ($(this).text() === "√"){