Executing [removed] elements inserted with [remove

Question

I've got a script that inserts some content into an element using innerHTML.

The content could for example be:

<script type="text/javascript">alert('test');</script>
<strong>test</strong>

Problem is that the code inside the <script> tag doesn't get executed. I googled it a bit but there were no apparent solutions. If I inserted the content using jQuery $(element).append(content);the script parts got eval'd before being injected into the DOM.

Has anyone got a snippet of code that executes all the <script> elements? The jQuery code was a bit complex so I couldn't really figure out how it was done.

Edit:

By peeking into the jQuery code I've managed to figure out how jQuery does it, which resulted in the following code:

Demo:
<div id="element"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
  function insertAndExecute(id, text)
  {
    domelement = document.getElementById(id);
    domelement.innerHTML = text;
    var scripts = [];

    ret = domelement.childNodes;
    for ( var i = 0; ret[i]; i++ ) {
      if ( scripts && nodeName( ret[i], "script" ) && (!ret[i].type || ret[i].type.toLowerCase() === "text/javascript") ) {
            scripts.push( ret[i].parentNode ? ret[i].parentNode.removeChild( ret[i] ) : ret[i] );
        }
    }

    for(script in scripts)
    {
      evalScript(scripts[script]);
    }
  }
  function nodeName( elem, name ) {
    return elem.nodeName && elem.nodeName.toUpperCase() === name.toUpperCase();
  }
  function evalScript( elem ) {
    data = ( elem.text || elem.textContent || elem.innerHTML || "" );

    var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0] || document.documentElement,
    script = document.createElement("script");
    script.type = "text/javascript";
    script.appendChild( document.createTextNode( data ) );
    head.insertBefore( script, head.firstChild );
    head.removeChild( script );

    if ( elem.parentNode ) {
        elem.parentNode.removeChild( elem );
    }
  }

  insertAndExecute("element", "<scri"+"pt type='text/javascript'>document.write('This text should appear as well.')</scr"+"ipt><strong>this text should also be inserted.</strong>");
</script>

Answer 1

Just do:

document.body.innerHTML = '<img src="../images/loaded.gif" alt="" onload="alert(\'test\');this.parentNode.removeChild(this);" />';

Answer 2

The OP's script doesn't work in IE 7. With help from SO, here's a script that does:

exec_body_scripts: function(body_el) {
  // Finds and executes scripts in a newly added element's body.
  // Needed since innerHTML does not run scripts.
  //
  // Argument body_el is an element in the dom.

  function nodeName(elem, name) {
    return elem.nodeName && elem.nodeName.toUpperCase() ===
              name.toUpperCase();
  };

  function evalScript(elem) {
    var data = (elem.text || elem.textContent || elem.innerHTML || "" ),
        head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0] ||
                  document.documentElement,
        script = document.createElement("script");

    script.type = "text/javascript";
    try {
      // doesn't work on ie...
      script.appendChild(document.createTextNode(data));      
    } catch(e) {
      // IE has funky script nodes
      script.text = data;
    }

    head.insertBefore(script, head.firstChild);
    head.removeChild(script);
  };

  // main section of function
  var scripts = [],
      script,
      children_nodes = body_el.childNodes,
      child,
      i;

  for (i = 0; children_nodes[i]; i++) {
    child = children_nodes[i];
    if (nodeName(child, "script" ) &&
      (!child.type || child.type.toLowerCase() === "text/javascript")) {
          scripts.push(child);
      }
  }

  for (i = 0; scripts[i]; i++) {
    script = scripts[i];
    if (script.parentNode) {script.parentNode.removeChild(script);}
    evalScript(scripts[i]);
  }
};

Answer 3

Try this snippet:

function stripAndExecuteScript(text) {
    var scripts = '';
    var cleaned = text.replace(/<script[^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/script>/gi, function(){
        scripts += arguments[1] + '\n';
        return '';
    });

    if (window.execScript){
        window.execScript(scripts);
    } else {
        var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
        var scriptElement = document.createElement('script');
        scriptElement.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
        scriptElement.innerText = scripts;
        head.appendChild(scriptElement);
        head.removeChild(scriptElement);
    }
    return cleaned;
};


var scriptString = '<scrip' + 't + type="text/javascript">alert(\'test\');</scr' + 'ipt><strong>test</strong>';
document.getElementById('element').innerHTML = stripAndExecuteScript(scriptString);

Answer 4

Here is my solution in a recent project.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 id="hello_world">Sample</h1>
<script type="text/javascript">
 var div = document.createElement("div");
  var t = document.createElement('template');
  t.innerHTML =  "Check Console tab for javascript output: Hello world!!!<br/><script type='text/javascript' >console.log('Hello world!!!');<\/script>";
  
  for (var i=0; i < t.content.childNodes.length; i++){
    var node = document.importNode(t.content.childNodes[i], true);
    div.appendChild(node);
  }
 document.body.appendChild(div);
</script>
 
</body>
</html>

Answer 5

Simplified ES6 version of @joshcomley's answer with an example

http://plnkr.co/edit/MMegiu?p=preview

var setInnerHtml = function(elm, html) {
  elm.innerHTML = html;
  Array.from(elm.querySelectorAll("script")).forEach(function(el) {
    let newEl = document.createElement("script");
    Array.from(el.attributes).forEach(function(el) { 
      newEl.setAttribute(el.name, el.value)
    });
    newEl.appendChild(document.createTextNode(el.innerHTML));
    el.parentNode.replaceChild(newEl, el);
  })
}

Usage

el.innerHTML = HTML;    // does not run <script> in HTML
setInnerHTML(el, HTML); // execute <script> in HTML

Answer 6

function insertHtml(id, html)  
{  
   var ele = document.getElementById(id);  
   ele.innerHTML = html;  
   var codes = ele.getElementsByTagName("script");   
   for(var i=0;i<codes.length;i++)  
   {  
       eval(codes[i].text);  
   }  
}  

It works in Chrome in my project