Safely Rendering HTML Strings as HTML

In this scenario, the issue arises when attempting to render a normal string of HTML content, but it instead appears as a string without being interpreted as HTML. This is typically encountered when the property being used in dangerouslySetInnerHTML is an object rather than a string.

To resolve this, ensure that the this.props.match.description property is a string. If it's not, convert it to HTML before assigning it to the property.

Handling HTML Entities

Additional complications arise when dealing with HTML entities. In such cases, you'll need to decode the entities before passing them to dangerouslySetInnerHTML.

Example Code

Consider the following example code:

class App extends React.Component {
  constructor() {
    super();
    this.state = {
      description: '
Our Opportunity:
',
    };
  }

  htmlDecode(input) {
    const e = document.createElement('div');
    e.innerHTML = input;
    return e.childNodes.length === 0 ? '' : e.childNodes[0].nodeValue;
  }

  render() {
    return (
      

    );
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(, document.getElementById('root'));

In this example, the description property contains HTML entities (). To render it correctly, the htmlDecode function is used to decode these entities before passing the HTML to dangerouslySetInnerHTML.