{"json_modified": "2016-03-28T08:04:00.072143", "uuid": "eaccf6f2-e3cf-4a23-8337-62061291b208", "title": "Document.createEntityReference()", "url": "/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/createEntityReference", "tags": ["API", "Reference", "R\u00e9f\u00e9rence", "DOM", "Method"], "translations": [], "modified": "2015-09-26T03:49:07", "label": "Document.createEntityReference()", "localization_tags": [], "locale": "en-US", "id": 7513, "last_edit": "2015-09-26T03:47:10", "summary": "Prior to <span title=\"(Firefox 7.0 / Thunderbird 7.0 / SeaMonkey 2.4)\">Gecko\u00a07.0</span> this method showed up as present, due to bug <a href=\"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9850\" title=\"{dom1}createEntityReference returning null\">bug\u00a09850</a>, it always only returned null. The only workaround is to create a text node, CDATA section, attribute node value, etc. which has the value referred to by the entity, using <a href=\"/en/JavaScript/Guide/Obsolete_Pages/Unicode#Unicode_escape_sequences\" title=\"en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide/Unicode#Unicode_escape_sequences\">Unicode escape sequences</a> or <a href=\"/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/fromCharCode\" title=\"en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Global_Objects/String/fromCharCode\">fromCharCode()</a> as necessary.", "sections": [{"id": "Quick_Links", "title": null}, {"id": "Specification", "title": "Specifications"}], "slug": "Web/API/Document/createEntityReference", "review_tags": []}