vue-dompurify-html

A "safe" replacement for the v-html directive. The HTML code is sanitized with DOMPurify before being interpreted.

This is only a small wrapper around DOMPurify to ease its usage in a Vue app. You should take a look at the DOMPurify Security Goals & Threat Model to understand what are the limitations and possibilities.

If you are looking for a version compatible with Vue 3 checkout the main branch.

Installation

npm install vue-dompurify-html@vue-legacy

Usage

import Vue from 'vue'
import VueDOMPurifyHTML from 'vue-dompurify-html'

Vue.use(VueDOMPurifyHTML)

new Vue({
  el: '#app',
  data: {
    rawHtml: '<span style="color: red">This should be red.</span>'
  }
})

In your template:

<div id="app">
    <div v-dompurify-html="rawHtml"></div>
</div>

You can also define your DOMPurify configurations:

import Vue from 'vue'
import VueDOMPurifyHTML from 'vue-dompurify-html'

Vue.use(VueDOMPurifyHTML, {
  namedConfigurations: {
    'svg': {
      USE_PROFILES: { svg: true }
    },
    'mathml': {
      USE_PROFILES: { mathMl: true }
    },
  }
});

new Vue({
  el: '#app',
  data: {
    rawHtml: '<span style="color: red">This should be red.</span>',
    svgContent: '<svg><rect height="50"></rect></svg>'
  }
})

Your configuration keys can then be used as an argument of the directive:

<div id="app">
    <div v-dompurify-html="rawHtml"></div>
    <div v-dompurify-html:svg="svgContent"></div>
</div>

Alternatively, you can define a default DOMPurify configuration:

import Vue from 'vue'
import VueDOMPurifyHTML from 'vue-dompurify-html'

Vue.use(VueDOMPurifyHTML, {
  default: {
    USE_PROFILES: { html: false }
  }
});

new Vue({
  el: '#app',
  data: {
    rawHtml: '<span style="color: red">This should not be red.</span>'
  }
})

The default DOMPurify configuration will be used:

<div id="app">
    <div v-dompurify-html="rawHtml"></div>
</div>

There is also the possibility to set-up DOMPurify hooks:

import { createApp } from 'vue'
import VueDOMPurifyHTML from 'vue-dompurify-html'

const app = createApp({
    data: () => ({
        rawHtml: '<span style="color: red">This should be red.</span>'
    })
});
app.use(VueDOMPurifyHTML, {
  hooks: {
    uponSanitizeElement: (currentNode) => {
      // Do something with the node
    }   
  }
});
app.mount('#app');

Usage with Nuxt

Client side

The usage is similar than when directly using Vue.

Define a new Nuxt plugin to import and setup the directive to your liking:

import Vue from 'vue';
import VueDOMPurifyHTML from 'vue-dompurify-html';

Vue.use(VueDOMPurifyHTML);

and then tell Nuxt to use it as client-side plugin in your Nuxt config:

export default {
  plugins: [{ src: '~/plugins/dompurify', mode: 'client' }]
}

Server side

The usage is similar than when directly using Vue but you need to setup DOMPurify to work with Node.

Install this package, DOMPurify and JSDOM:

npm install vue-dompurify-html@vue-legacy dompurify jsdom

In your Nuxt config you will need to setup a "server-side" directive:

export default {
    render: {
        bundleRenderer: {
            directives: {
                'dompurify-html': (el, dir) => {
                    const insertHook = buildVueDompurifyHTMLDirective(
                        {},
                        () => {
                            const window = new JSDOM('').window;
                            return createDOMPurify(window);
                        }
                    ).inserted;
                    insertHook(el, dir);
                    el.data.domProps = { innerHTML: el.innerHTML };
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Note that if you are not using injectScripts: false in your Nuxt config you will also need to register a client-side plugin as described just before.