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https://github.com/jitbit/HtmlSanitizer
Fast JavaScript HTML Sanitizer, client-side (i.e. needs a browser, won't work in Node and other backend)
https://github.com/jitbit/HtmlSanitizer
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Fast JavaScript HTML Sanitizer, client-side (i.e. needs a browser, won't work in Node and other backend)
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jitbit/HtmlSanitizer
- Owner: jitbit
- License: mit
- Created: 2019-01-18T13:41:26.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-02-26T17:42:19.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-04-26T22:20:26.462Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: sanitize, sanitize-html, sanitizer
- Language: HTML
- Homepage: https://www.jitbit.com
- Size: 61.5 KB
- Stars: 134
- Watchers: 16
- Forks: 31
- Open Issues: 5
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# JS Html Sanitizer
Client-side HTML Sanitizer (front-end only, i.e. "needs a browser", won't work in `Node`) to prevent XSS and unwanted tags in UGC.
* Very fast (8000 ops/sec)
* Very small (1.7kb *unminified!*)
* Zero dependency, vanilla JS, works even in IE (duh)
> Please note: to prevent XSS attacks you should always sanitize input **on the server too**. *Never trust the client!*
### Install
```html
```
or
```html
```
or
```
npm install @jitbit/htmlsanitizer
```
(simply puts the script into `/node_modules`)
### Usage:
```html
var html;
//run with default settings
html = HtmlSanitizer.SanitizeHtml("<div><script>alert('xss!');</sc" + "ript></div>"); //returns "<div></div>";
html = HtmlSanitizer.SanitizeHtml("<a onclick=\"alert('xss')\"></a>"); //returns "<a></a>";
html = HtmlSanitizer.SanitizeHtml("<a href=\"javascript:alert('xss')\"></a>"); //returns "<a></a>";
//permanently allow a tag for all future invocations
HtmlSanitizer.AllowedTags['FORM'] = true;
html = HtmlSanitizer.SanitizeHtml("<form></form>"); //returns "<form></form>";
//allow somthing only once by specifying a selector
html = HtmlSanitizer.SanitizeHtml("<input type=checkbox>", "input[type=checkbox]"); //returns "<input type=\"checkbox\">";
```
The sanitizer uses [whitelisting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitelisting) approach (as opposed to "blacklisting") to clean out everything that's not allowed.
## Speed & Benchmarks
It uses browser/DOM to parse the html by using `DOMParser` object (hence the browser "front-end only" requirement) which makes it **much faster** than "pure JavaScript" sanitizers.
Tested on `https://www.bbc.co.uk` homepage - the page is sanitized **~370 times per second** on an i5 core CPU in Firefox Quantum (tested via `benchmark.js`)
Comparing HtmlSanitizer vs DOMPurify benchmark:
```
starting benchmark...
HtmlSanitizer x 8,048 ops/sec ±3.37% (44 runs sampled)
DOMPurify x 5,195 ops/sec ±3.30% (57 runs sampled)
Fastest is HtmlSanitizer
```
## Tags allowed by default
`a, abbr, b, blockquote, body, br, center, code, div, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, img, label, li, ol, p, pre, small, source, span, strong, table, tbody, tr, td, th, thead, ul, u, video`
## Attributes allowed by default
`align, color, controls, height, href, src, style, target, title, type, width`
## CSS styles allowed by default
`color, background-color, font-size, text-align, text-decoration, font-weight`
## Schemas allowed by default
`http:, https:, data:, m-files:, file:, ftp:, mailto:, pw:`
(allowed in 'src', 'href' and similar "uri-attributes". To clean up stuff like ``)
## Configuring
Allowed tags, attributes, schemas and styles are listed in `AllowedTags`, `AllowedAttributes`, `AllowedSchemas` and `AllowedCssStyles` public properties. To disallow a tag remove it from the dictionary like this:
```javascript
delete HtmlSanitizer.AllowedTags['TABLE']; //mind the uppercase
```
To add an allowed tag globally:
```javascript
HtmlSanitizer.AllowedTags['SCRIPT'] = true; //mind the uppercase
```
To allow an extra tag only once during invocation - specify extra selector to allow in the second parameter
```javascript
var html = HtmlSanitizer.SanitizeHtml("", "input[type=checkbox]");
```
## Browser support
Supported by all major browsers, IE10 and higher.
## BUT WHY?
> Why create a front-end HTML sanitizer if the input has to be sanitized on the server anyway?
Users often copy-paste awful HTML generated by MS Word, MS Outlook or Apple Mail that needs a clean-up. Or you need to remove excessive formatting in an WYSIWYG editor. Or you need to display an (ugly) email message in a (beatuful) mobile app. Or (my favorite) you simply need to ease the load in the server-side sanitizer. And many many other use-cases.
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