What is the HtmlSpecialChars equivalent in JavaScript?

Apparently, this is harder to find than I thought it would be. And it even is so simple…

Is there a function equivalent to PHP’s htmlspecialchars built into JavaScript? I know it’s fairly easy to implement that yourself, but using a built-in function, if available, is just nicer.

For those unfamiliar with PHP, htmlspecialchars translates stuff like <htmltag/> into &lt;htmltag/&gt;

I know that escape() and encodeURI() do not work this way.

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