Replacing certain “<” and “>” in html string

Question

<table class="sentinelresultitems" style="width: 800px; font-size: 0.5em; margin-top: 30px; margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; display: table;">
    <tbody><tr>
        <td>
            <b>License ID</b>
        </td>
        <td style="text-align: right">
            <b>Product</b>
        </td>
     /tr>
    <tr>
        <td>New</td>
        <td class="quoteproductname" style="text-align: right">Product > name</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>New</td><td class="quoteproductname" style="text-align: right">Another < product name
        </td>
    </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

Im trying to generate a PDF out of the html string above in c#. But it crashes because i cant separate the < and > in the product name, thus resulting in invalid html. And even if i replace them with > etc, they will still be parsed as > .

Is it possible to replace the < and > with something like GT and LT until i get it on the server? After that i can just do a normal text replace on that. Otherwise i will obviously replace all the tags as well.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

That's what you want ?

var replacers = {
    '<': 'GT',
    '>': 'LT'
};
var html = $('.sentinelresultitems').html().replace(/[<>]/g, function(match) {
    return replacers[match];
});