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A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHub releases.
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Check if a string is HTML
You should not use this for any kind of validation, sanitation, or XSS checks.
$ npm install is-html-ts
$ yarn add is-html-ts
import isHtml, { basic, full } from 'is-html-ts';
import type { Options } from 'is-html-ts'
isHtml('<p>I am HTML</p>');
//=> true
isHtml('<!doctype><html><body><h1>I ❤ unicorns</h1></body></html>');
//=> true
isHtml('<cake>I am XML</cake>');
//=> false
isHtml('>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-');
//=> false
const customOptions: Options = {
regExp: 'basic',
length: 'all',
};
isHtml('<!doctype><html><body><h1>I ❤ unicorns</h1></body></html>', customOptions);
//=> true
isHtml('<cake>I am XML</cake>', customOptions);
//=> false
Note: It does not detect deprecated HTML tags.
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Check if a string is HTML
We found that is-html-ts demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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