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Element: setHTML() method

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170 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 09:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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codedokode ◴[23 Oct 25 02:12 UTC] No.45677417[source]▶
I don't like this. This could be implemented as a JS library. I believe browsers should provide the minimal API so that they are smaller and easier to create. As for safe alternative to innerHTML, it is called innerText.
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csmantle ◴[23 Oct 25 02:21 UTC] No.45677474[source]▶
I think innerText and setHTML() have different purposes. The former inserts the whole string as a text leaf, while the latter tries to preserve structures that are meaningful in context.

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Libraries can surely do the same job, but then the exact behavior would vary among a sea of those libs. Having specs defined [0] for such an interface would hopefully iron out much of these variations, as well as enabling some performance gains.

[0]: https://wicg.github.io/sanitizer-api/#dom-element-sethtml

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1. codedokode ◴[23 Oct 25 03:40 UTC] No.45677927[source]▶
And if you need something that is not in a spec, you have to use a library anyway. Also the point was that browser should be as simple as possible and not like a whole new OS.