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Input sanitization in ReactJS

I am using ReactJS do develop a simple chat application. Could someone help me to sanitize the input . There is only one input text box to send chat messages. How to sanitize it?.

<input type="text"               className="chat"               value={this.state.name}             /> 

Based on the documentations HTML escapes html by default. Is it enough?. Do I need to add any other sanitization methods. If yes, please let me know how to do that?.

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Shamnad P S Avatar asked Apr 24 '17 09:04

Shamnad P S


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It's sanitized by default, you don't need a sanitization method unless you are using dangerouslySetInnerHTML which is not the case.

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dgrijuela Avatar answered Sep 20 '22 15:09

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