From d068ec6713e233f3cd1f8b53a7150c122adb3a24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gladiator-1 <102553449+gladiator-1@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 09:57:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update index.js

---
 src/libs/SelectionScraper/index.js | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libs/SelectionScraper/index.js b/src/libs/SelectionScraper/index.js
index 07fdb2ca490c..7ad31948a2a5 100644
--- a/src/libs/SelectionScraper/index.js
+++ b/src/libs/SelectionScraper/index.js
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 import render from 'dom-serializer';
 import ExpensiMark from 'expensify-common/lib/ExpensiMark';
-import {parseDocument} from 'htmlparser2';
-import {Element} from 'domhandler';
+import { parseDocument } from 'htmlparser2';
+import { Element } from 'domhandler';
 import _ from 'underscore';
+import Str from 'expensify-common/lib/str';
 
 const elementsWillBeSkipped = ['html', 'body'];
 const tagAttribute = 'data-testid';
@@ -88,6 +89,11 @@ const replaceNodes = (dom) => {
     let domChildren;
     const domAttribs = {};
 
+    //Encoding HTML chars '< >' in the text, because any HTML will be removed in stripHTML method.
+    if (dom.type == "text") {
+        dom.data = Str.htmlEncode(dom.data)
+    }
+
     // We are skipping elements which has html and body in data-testid, since ExpensiMark can't parse it. Also this data
     // has no meaning for us.
     if (dom.attribs && dom.attribs[tagAttribute]) {