Jan 28, 2023 Author - Sai gowtham

Rendering the HTML string in React

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In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to render the html string as real dom elements in React app.

If we try to use JSX curly brace syntax { } to render an html string, react will treated it as a plain text (to prevent from the cross-site scripting attacks).

App.js

import React from "react";

export default function App() {
  const htmlString = "<h1>Hello World</h1>";
  return <div>{htmlString}</div>;
}

Rendering the HTML

To render the html string in react, we can use the dangerouslySetInnerHTML attribute which is a react version of dom innerHTML property.

Example:

App.js

import React from "react";

export default function App() {
  const htmlString = "<h1>Hello World</h1>";
  return <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: htmlString }}>         </div>;
}

The term dangerously is used here to notify you that it will be vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks (XSS).

Similarly, you can also use the html-react-parser library to render the html string.

App.js

import React from "react";
import parse from "html-react-parser";
export default function App() {
  const htmlString = "<h1>Hello World</h1>";

  return <div>{parse(htmlString)}</div>;}