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html-purify
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HTML5 Purifier - a fast and small footprint HTML5 purifier. The module uses a whitelist based approach to filter malicious characters,tags, attributes and attribute values while keeping the resulting output HTML5 compliant. It uses context parser for parsing the input string, xss filters for filtering URI attribute values and css-js for filtering CSS data within the HTML input.
Install html-purify from the npm repo
npm install html-purify
Server side use(nodejs)
/* create the html purifier */
var Purifier = require('html-purify');
var purifier = new Purifier();
var input = '...';
/* filter the input string */
var result = purifier.purify(input);
npm install
npm run-script build
npm test
This software is free to use under the Yahoo Inc. BSD license. See the LICENSE file for license text and copyright information.
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HTML5 Purifier
We found that html-purify demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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