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ulrischa
14 days ago
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Element: setHTML() method
Since 5 years everybody says Jquery us no longer necessary. But really baisc function like this take a long time for replacing Jquery
halapro
14 days ago
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jQuery does not sanitize HTML. This is why jQuery is no longer necessary, even if people think it is.
ulrischa
14 days ago
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There is the jquery bashing again. let sanitizedHTML = $('<div>').text(unsanitizedHTML).html();
wccrawford
14 days ago
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You can 100% do that same thing without jQuery. It's not even complicated.
And that is
not
what the new .setHTML() does.
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