dynamic HTML String to react component

Question

I would be getting dynamic html content from my template rendering which was rendered by other react components. How would I convert this html string to React component so that I can use the component in my render function. Note that I want to preserve react specific attributes used for diffing.

React.createClass( {
  var self = this;

  componentWillMountDown : function() {
    //htmlString is essentially huge dynamic one in my actual case
    var htmlString = "<div class='classDiv' react-id="0.1"><input type='text'/></div>";
    self.setState({responseString : htmlString});
    self.forceUpdate();
  },
    
  render: function() {
    var Response = this.state.responseString;
    //how would I return the react component as response?
    return (<Response/>); //does not work. err is it shd be valid react component
   }
});

I've tried converting htmlString to HTMLDocument object and recursively creating React.createElement in willmount callback and setting react component. however, the error is type toUpperCase is not defined.

Answer 1

You can use React HTML Parser. Here is the link React HTML Parser

It's a utility for converting HTML strings into React components. Avoids the use of dangerouslySetInnerHTML and converts standard HTML elements, attributes and inline styles into their React equivalents.

Answer 2

A few hours ago, I published an html-to-react module in npm (https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-react) that may help you.

Please let me know if there's anything you need, I can certainly work with you to make the module more flexible.

Answer 3

Because you store your component as string so you have to use dangerouslySetInnerHTML. This is my suggestion. I hope someone else will have the better answer. :)

    render: function() {
    var self = this;
    var Response = React.createClass({
        render: function(){
        return (<div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{__html: self.state.responseString}}></div>)
        }
    });
    return (
            <Response />
    )
   }