@lexical/html
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@lexical/html
This package exports utility functions for converting Lexical -> HTML and HTML -> Lexical. These same functions are also used in the lexical-clipboard package for copy and paste.
Full documentation can be found here.
// In a headless mode, you need to initialize a headless browser implementation such as JSDom.
const dom = new JSDOM();
// @ts-expect-error
global.window = dom.window;
global.document = dom.window.document;
// You may also need to polyfill DocumentFragment or navigator in certain cases.
// When converting to HTML you can pass in a selection object to narrow it
// down to a certain part of the editor's contents.
const htmlString = $generateHtmlFromNodes(editor, selection | null);
First we need to parse the HTML string into a DOM instance.
// In the browser you can use the native DOMParser API to parse the HTML string.
const parser = new DOMParser();
const dom = parser.parseFromString(htmlString, textHtmlMimeType);
// In a headless environment you can use a package such as JSDom to parse the HTML string.
const dom = new JSDOM(htmlString);
And once you have the DOM instance.
const nodes = $generateNodesFromDOM(editor, dom);
// Once you have the lexical nodes you can initialize an editor instance with the parsed nodes.
const editor = createEditor({ ...config, nodes });
// Or insert them at a selection.
$insertNodes(nodes);
v0.36.1 (2025-09-25)
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This package contains HTML helpers and functionality for Lexical.
The npm package @lexical/html receives a total of 901,486 weekly downloads. As such, @lexical/html popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @lexical/html demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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