Decode & back to & in JavaScript

Question

I have strings like

var str = 'One & two & three';

rendered into HTML by the web server. I need to transform those strings into

'One & two & three'

Currently, that's what I am doing (with help of jQuery):

$(document.createElement('div')).html('{{ driver.person.name }}').text()

However I have an unsettling feeling that I am doing it wrong. I have tried

unescape("&")

but it doesn't seem to work, neither do decodeURI/decodeURIComponent.

Are there any other, more native and elegant ways of doing so?

Answer 1

For one-line guys:

const htmlDecode = innerHTML => Object.assign(document.createElement('textarea'), {innerHTML}).value;

console.log(htmlDecode('Complicated - Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike'));