Sanitizer.sanitize()

The sanitize() method of the Sanitizer interface is used to sanitize a tree of DOM nodes, removing any unwanted elements or attributes.

It should be used when the data to be sanitized is already available as DOM nodes. For example when sanitizing a Document instance in a frame.

The default Sanitizer() configuration strips out XSS-relevant input by default, including <script> tags, custom elements, and comments. The sanitizer configuration may be customized using Sanitizer() constructor options.

input

A DocumentFragment or Document to be sanitized.

A sanitized DocumentFragment.

None.

To sanitize data from an iframe with id userFrame:

const sanitizer = new Sanitizer();  // Default sanitizer;

// Get the frame and its Document object
const frame_element = document.getElementById("userFrame")
const unsanitized_frame_tree = frame_element.contentWindow.document;

// Sanitize the document tree and update the frame.
const sanitized_frame_tree = sanitizer.sanitize(unsanitized_frame_tree);
frame_element.replaceChildren(sanitized_frame_tree);

• HTML Sanitizer API
• Element.setHTML()