angular - Manually sanitize a string

Question

I have an textarea where the user will type in some text. The text cannot be JavaScript or HTML etc. I want to manually sanitize the data and save it to a string.

I cannot figure out how to use DomSanitizationService to manually sanitize my data.

If I do {{ textare_text }} on the page then the data is correctly sanitized.

How do I do that manually to a string I have?

Answer 1

You can sanitize the HTML as follows:

import { Component, SecurityContext } from '@angular/core';
import { DomSanitizer, SafeHtml } from '@angular/platform-browser';

@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  template: `
  <div [innerHTML]="_htmlProperty"></div>
  `
})
export class AppComponent {

  _htmlProperty: string = 'AAA<input type="text" name="name">BBB';

  constructor(private _sanitizer: DomSanitizer){ }

  public get htmlProperty() : SafeHtml {
     return this._sanitizer.sanitize(SecurityContext.HTML, this._htmlProperty);
  }

}

Demo plunker here.

---

From your comments, you actually want escaping not sanitization.

For this, check this plunker, where we have both escaping and sanitization.

import { Component, SecurityContext } from '@angular/core';
import { DomSanitizer, SafeHtml } from '@angular/platform-browser';

@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  template: `Original, using interpolation (double curly braces):<b>
        <div>{{ _originalHtmlProperty }}</div> 
  </b><hr>Sanitized, used as innerHTML:<b>
        <div [innerHTML]="sanitizedHtmlProperty"></div>
  </b><hr>Escaped, used as innerHTML:<b>
      <div [innerHTML]="escapedHtmlProperty"></div>
  </b><hr>Escaped AND sanitized used as innerHTML:<b>
      <div [innerHTML]="escapedAndSanitizedHtmlProperty"></div>
  </b>`
})
export class AppComponent {
  _originalHtmlProperty: string = 'AAA<input type="text" name="name">BBB';
  constructor(private _sanitizer: DomSanitizer){ }

  public get sanitizedHtmlProperty() : SafeHtml {
     return this._sanitizer.sanitize(SecurityContext.HTML, this._originalHtmlProperty);
  }

  public get escapedHtmlProperty() : string {
     return this.escapeHtml(this._originalHtmlProperty);
  }

  public get escapedAndSanitizedHtmlProperty() : string {
     return this._sanitizer.sanitize(SecurityContext.HTML, this.escapeHtml(this._originalHtmlProperty));
  }

  escapeHtml(unsafe) {
    return unsafe.replace(/&/g, "&amp;").replace(/</g, "&lt;").replace(/>/g, "&gt;")
                 .replace(/"/g, "&quot;").replace(/'/g, "&#039;");
  }
}

The HTML escaping function used above escapes the same chars as angular code does (unfortunately, their escaping function is not public, so we can't use it).