<div>
  <button id='bintro'>Escape</button>
</div>
<p id='content'>Click the button to change this text</p>
button {
  font-size: 36px;
}

#content {
  font-size: 36px;
}
function safe(strings, ...values) {
  const result = [];
  strings.forEach(s => {
    result.push(s);
    result.push(_.escape(values.shift() || ''));
  });
  return result.join('');
}

function escaped() {
  const user = 'Jones';
  const text = 'hello <b>world</b>';
  const result = safe`1. ${user} said: "${text}"`
  $('#content').html(result);
}

$('#bintro').on('click', escaped);

External CSS

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External JavaScript

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  2. https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.4/lodash.min.js