Reactjs convert html string to jsx

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Peter Wateber picture Peter Wateber · Oct 9, 2013 · Viewed 210.2k times · Source

I'm having trouble dealing with facebook's ReactJS. Whenever I do ajax and want to display an html data, ReactJS displays it as text. (See figure below)

ReactJS render string

The data is displayed through the success callback function of the jquery Ajax.

$.ajax({
   url: url here,
   dataType: "json",
   success: function(data) {
      this.setState({
           action: data.action
      })
   }.bind(this)
});

enter image description here

Is there any easy way to convert this into html? How should I do it using ReactJS?

Answer

Sophie Alpert picture Sophie Alpert · Oct 9, 2013

By default, React escapes the HTML to prevent XSS (Cross-site scripting). If you really want to render HTML, you can use the dangerouslySetInnerHTML property:

<td dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{__html: this.state.actions}} />

React forces this intentionally-cumbersome syntax so that you don't accidentally render text as HTML and introduce XSS bugs.

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