I building a small blog app using React and Redux. The blog show Posts page with title, author, tags and description of a post. When clicking on title or "read more" button, I want to load and render an HTML file with corresponding post from a local project's data folder with all the posts.
Redux is managing the state of the blog, loading initial posts.json file with 8 different posts, including htmlPath for the corresponding html file in the data folder.
Fetching the HTML from an external source One simple way to do dynamically fetch a choose a specific file would be to let your backend (e.g php) read the file from a local folder, parse the text, and send it back through an AJAX request.
The way I see it is that you have 2 problems to solve here. The first is how to set the innerHTML
of an element in React. The other is how to get a specific HTML to render depending on a given variable (e.g the current route, the input of a textfield, etc).
innerHTML
of an elementYou can do this with the dangerouslySetInnerHTML
prop. As the name suggests it sets the innerHTML
of the said element to whatever you specify... and yes, the "dangerously" is accurate as it's intended to make you think twice before using this feature.
The Official Documentation reads as follows:
Improper use of the innerHTML can open you up to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. Sanitizing user input for display is notoriously error-prone, and failure to properly sanitize is one of the leading causes of web vulnerabilities on the internet.
Check out this Demo or the snippet below.
var Demo = React.createClass({ getInitialState: function() { return {showExternalHTML: false}; }, render: function() { return ( <div> <button onClick={this.toggleExternalHTML}>Toggle Html</button> {this.state.showExternalHTML ? <div> <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={this.createMarkup()} ></div> </div> : null} </div> ); }, toggleExternalHTML: function() { this.setState({showExternalHTML: !this.state.showExternalHTML}); }, createMarkup: function() { return {__html: '<div class="ext">Hello!</div>'}; } }); ReactDOM.render( <Demo />, document.getElementById('container') );
.ext { margin-top: 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; background: green; color: white; font-size: 40px; text-align: center; line-height: 100px; }
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react.min.js"></script> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react-dom.min.js"></script> <div id="container"></div>
Note that the above example does not actually get the HTML from an external file, but is entered directly as a string.
One simple way to do dynamically fetch a choose a specific file would be to let your backend (e.g php) read the file from a local folder, parse the text, and send it back through an AJAX request.
//Your React component fetchExternalHTML: function(fileName) { Ajax.getJSON('/myAPI/getExternalHTML/' + fileName).then( response => { this.setState({ extHTML: response }); }, err => { //handle your error here } ); }
While Chris's answer was good, some more digging was required to make it work. Here are the steps that you need to take:
Add html loader to your project:
npm i -D html-loader
Add the following rule to your webpack.config file:
{ test: /\.(html)$/, use: { loader: 'html-loader', options: { attrs: [':data-src'] } } }
Now you can import your html file as follow:
import React, { Component } from 'react'; import Page from './test.html'; var htmlDoc = {__html: Page}; export default class Doc extends Component { constructor(props){ super(props); } render(){ return (<div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={htmlDoc} />) }}
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