Convert Emoji Entities To Images

using js convert any and all emoji entities to emoji images

To convert any and all HTML emoji entities (like 🐒) to their corresponding visible emoji images (like '🐒') using JavaScript, you typically need to target the text content of elements on the page and then use the browser's built-in parsing mechanism to interpret the entity.

Here is a complete, well-commented JavaScript function that achieves this.
JavaScript Solution

This function targets the <body> of the entire document and converts the entities.
JavaScript

/**
 * Converts all HTML emoji entities (e.g., &#128018; or &#x1f412;) 
 * within the document body into their rendered emoji characters (e.g., 🐒).
 */
function convertEmojiEntitiesToImages() {
  // 1. Get the content you want to modify (e.g., the entire body)
  const targetElement = document.body;

  if (!targetElement) {
    console.error('Target element (document.body) not found.');
    return;
  }

  // 2. Use innerHTML to retrieve the raw string content, including entities.
  const rawHTML = targetElement.innerHTML;

  // 3. Create a temporary, dummy element to leverage the browser's HTML parser.
  const tempDiv = document.createElement('div');

  // 4. Set the raw content onto the temporary element.
  // When the browser sets the innerHTML, it automatically parses and 
  // converts HTML entities (like &#128018;) into their actual characters (🐒).
  tempDiv.innerHTML = rawHTML;

  // 5. Get the parsed content back as a string. This string will now contain 
  // the actual emoji characters instead of the entities.
  const parsedHTML = tempDiv.innerHTML;

  // 6. Replace the original content with the new parsed content.
  targetElement.innerHTML = parsedHTML;

  console.log('Successfully converted all emoji entities to visible characters.');
}

// To execute the function automatically once the page is fully loaded:
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', convertEmojiEntitiesToImages);

// If you need to run it later, just call:
// convertEmojiEntitiesToImages();

💡 How It Works

Retrieve Raw Content: We grab the innerHTML of the element we want to modify (in this case, document.body). This gives us the text as a raw string, preserving the &#...; entities.

Use a Dummy Element: We create a temporary div (tempDiv).

Parsing Magic: When you assign the raw string (which contains entities) to tempDiv.innerHTML, the browser's HTML engine automatically parses those entities. For example, it sees 🐒 and internally converts it to the Unicode character \u1f412 (the monkey emoji).

Retrieve Parsed Content: We then read the innerHTML back from the tempDiv. This new string contains the actual emoji characters, not the entities.

Update the DOM: We replace the original innerHTML of the document body with this new, parsed content, making the emojis visible.