From 436bd3716f660ed7912f2a721a5d0a2e596c1a2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Virgil <virgil@lethean.io>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 01:59:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix(html): unescape stripped html entities

Co-Authored-By: Virgil <virgil@lethean.io>
---
 pipeline.go      | 3 ++-
 pipeline_test.go | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pipeline.go b/pipeline.go
index 3159b4f..e8c52ce 100644
--- a/pipeline.go
+++ b/pipeline.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 package html
 
 import (
+	htmlstd "html"
 	"strings"
 	"unicode"
 
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ func StripTags(html string) string {
 		b.WriteRune(r)
 		seenText = true
 	}
-	return b.String()
+	return htmlstd.UnescapeString(b.String())
 }
 
 // pipeline.go: Imprint renders a node tree to HTML, strips tags, tokenises the text,
diff --git a/pipeline_test.go b/pipeline_test.go
index 265b0e3..c8f0bec 100644
--- a/pipeline_test.go
+++ b/pipeline_test.go
@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ func TestStripTags_NoTags(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestStripTags_Entities(t *testing.T) {
-	got := StripTags(`&lt;script&gt;`)
-	want := "&lt;script&gt;"
+	got := StripTags(`<p>&amp; &lt;script&gt;</p>`)
+	want := "& <script>"
 	if got != want {
-		t.Errorf("StripTags should preserve entities, got %q, want %q", got, want)
+		t.Errorf("StripTags should unescape entities, got %q, want %q", got, want)
 	}
 }