source: node_modules/parse-entities/decode-entity.browser.js

'use strict'

/* eslint-env browser */

var el

var semicolon = 59 //  ';'

module.exports = decodeEntity

function decodeEntity(characters) {
  var entity = '&' + characters + ';'
  var char

  el = el || document.createElement('i')
  el.innerHTML = entity
  char = el.textContent

  // Some entities do not require the closing semicolon (`&not` - for instance),
  // which leads to situations where parsing the assumed entity of &notit; will
  // result in the string `¬it;`.  When we encounter a trailing semicolon after
  // parsing and the entity to decode was not a semicolon (`;`), we can
  // assume that the matching was incomplete
  if (char.charCodeAt(char.length - 1) === semicolon && characters !== 'semi') {
    return false
  }

  // If the decoded string is equal to the input, the entity was not valid
  return char === entity ? false : char
}