react-html-replace

A simple way to safely do html tag replacement with React components

Install

$ npm install --save react-html-replace

Usage

Simple Example

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { render } from 'react-dom';
 
import reactHtmlReplace from 'react-html-replace';
 
const Mention = props => {
  const { children, id, name } = props;
  return (
    <span name={name} id={id} style={{ border: '1px solid #ccc' }}>
      &nbsp;{children}&nbsp;
    </span>
  );
};
 
class Demo extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        {reactHtmlReplace(
          `<italic>This is <bold> xml string</bold> with custom nexted markup,<bold> we can get inner markup & attribute  through props.</bold></italic> <mention id ="123" name ="raodurgesh">  this is mention tag with id & name attributes </mention> <hashtag tag="howdymody" href ="http://google.com"></hashtag>`,
          (tag, props) => {
            if (tag === 'bold') {
              return <b />;
            }
            if (tag === 'italic') {
              return <i />;
            }
            if (tag === 'mention') {
              const { name, id } = props;
              return <Mention name={name} id={id}></Mention>;
            }
            if (tag === 'hashtag') {
              const { tag, href } = props;
              return <a href={href}>{`#${tag}`}</a>;
            }
          }
        )}
      </div>
    );
  }
}
 
render(<Demo />, document.querySelector('#demo'));

Output (of above code)

This is xml string with custom nexted markup, we can get inner markup & attribute through props.   this is mention tag with id & name attribute this is mention tag with id & name attribute   #howdymody

Params

import reactHtmlReplace from 'react-html-replace';

reactHtmlReplace(xmlstring, callbackfunction);

xmlstring : the html string must have opening and closing tags.

callbackfunction :

• tag : (html custom tag)
• Props : _Attributes of tag

i.e ,

xmlstring :<bold> This is </bold><link href = "https://github.com">demo</link>

callbackfunction : (tag, props):

tag : bold , link

props : href

children : In react component, we can have special React.Children as array(as show in Mention Component)

Getting started

npm install
npm start
# go to localhost:3000 if it doesnt open automatically