Module | ActionView::Helpers::SanitizeHelper
In: | lib/action_view/helpers/sanitize_helper.rb

The SanitizeHelper module provides a set of methods for scrubbing text of undesired HTML elements. These helper methods extend ActionView making them callable within your template files.

### Methods

included sanitize sanitize_css strip_links strip_tags

### Public Class methods

included(base)

### Public Instance methods

sanitize(html, options = {})

This `sanitize` helper will html encode all tags and strip all attributes that aren‘t specifically allowed. It also strips href/src tags with invalid protocols, like javascript: especially. It does its best to counter any tricks that hackers may use, like throwing in unicode/ascii/hex values to get past the javascript: filters. Check out the extensive test suite.

      <%= sanitize @article.body %>

You can add or remove tags/attributes if you want to customize it a bit. See ActionView::Base for full docs on the available options. You can add tags/attributes for single uses of `sanitize` by passing either the `:attributes` or `:tags` options:

Normal Use

      <%= sanitize @article.body %>

Custom Use (only the mentioned tags and attributes are allowed, nothing else)

      <%= sanitize @article.body, :tags => %w(table tr td), :attributes => %w(id class style)

Add table tags to the default allowed tags

      Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
        config.action_view.sanitized_allowed_tags = 'table', 'tr', 'td'
      end

Remove tags to the default allowed tags

      Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
        config.after_initialize do
          ActionView::Base.sanitized_allowed_tags.delete 'div'
        end
      end

Change allowed default attributes

      Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
        config.action_view.sanitized_allowed_attributes = 'id', 'class', 'style'
      end

Please note that sanitizing user-provided text does not guarantee that the resulting markup is valid (conforming to a document type) or even well-formed. The output may still contain e.g. unescaped ’<’, ’>’, ’&’ characters and confuse browsers.

sanitize_css(style)

Sanitizes a block of CSS code. Used by `sanitize` when it comes across a style attribute.

strip_links(html)

Strips all link tags from `text` leaving just the link text.

#### Examples

      strip_links('<a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org">Ruby on Rails</a>')
      # => Ruby on Rails

      strip_links('Please e-mail me at <a href="mailto:me@email.com">me@email.com</a>.')
      # => Please e-mail me at me@email.com.

      strip_links('Blog: <a href="http://www.myblog.com/" class="nav" target=\"_blank\">Visit</a>.')
      # => Blog: Visit

strip_tags(html)

Strips all HTML tags from the `html`, including comments. This uses the html-scanner tokenizer and so its HTML parsing ability is limited by that of html-scanner.

#### Examples

      strip_tags("Strip <i>these</i> tags!")
      # => Strip these tags!

      strip_tags("<b>Bold</b> no more!  <a href='more.html'>See more here</a>...")
      # => Bold no more!  See more here...

      strip_tags("<div id='top-bar'>Welcome to my website!</div>")
      # => Welcome to my website!

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