The Sanitizer API: How Element.setHTML() Simplifies Browser-Based HTML Sanitization
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Summary
The article explains that the new Sanitizer API being built into browsers is essentially just the Element.setHTML() method, which provides a simpler, built-in approach to HTML sanitization compared to traditional library-based methods. It discusses how this API addresses XSS security concerns for user-generated content by offering a standardized, browser-native solution that's already available in Firefox Nightly and Chrome Canary.
Key quotes
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Nowadays, HTML sanitization is often done to allow user-generated content with HTML but without causing XSS bugs.
The core feature of the Sanitizer API is actually just Element.setHTML(input).
We are specifying an API that will be directly built into the browser.
In fact, you can already use it in Firefox Nightly and Chrome Canary.
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