Converts the characters "&", "<", ">", '"', "'", and "`" in string to their corresponding HTML entities.

Note: No other characters are escaped. To escape additional characters use a third-party library like he.

Though the ">" character is escaped for symmetry, characters like ">" and "/" don't need escaping in HTML and have no special meaning unless they're part of a tag or unquoted attribute value. See Mathias Bynens's article (under "semi-related fun fact") for more details.

Backticks are escaped because in Internet Explorer < 9, they can break out of attribute values or HTML comments. See #59, #102, #108, and #133 of the HTML5 Security Cheatsheet for more details.

When working with HTML you should always quote attribute values to reduce XSS vectors.

_.escape('fred, barney, & pebbles');
// => 'fred, barney, & pebbles'