Installation¶ ↑

npm install sanitizer

Require¶ ↑

var sanitizer = require(‘sanitizer’);

Use¶ ↑

See /test/test-sanitzer.js for full documentation.

sanitizer.escape(‘your dirty string’); // Escapes HTML special characters in attribute values as HTML entities

var yourParser = sanitizer.makeSaxParser(yourHandler); // Given a SAX-like event handler, produce a function that feeds those events and a parameter to the event handler.

sanitizer.normalizeRCData(‘your dirty string’); // Escape entities in RCDATA that can be escaped without changing the meaning.

sanitizer.sanitize(‘your dirty string’); // Strips unsafe tags and attributes from html.

exports.unescapeEntities(‘your string’); // The plain text of a chunk of HTML CDATA which possibly containing.

Caveats¶ ↑

It’s use this at your own risk really - Caja HTML Sanitizer was written by people far cleverer than me. I have just repackaged it to solve a problem I had (sanitization on a Node server). It seems to work, and it passes all its tests in re-packaged form - however I don’t fully understand its internals so cannot guarantee its security.

More information¶ ↑

code.google.com/p/google-caja/source/browse/trunk/src/com/google/caja/plugin/html-sanitizer.js