sanitize-html
Clean up user-submitted HTML while preserving allowlisted elements and attributes.
Markdown, editors and content npm MIT
Used in agent projects
38
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#29 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
11.7M
npm, last 7 days, sanitize-html
GitHub stars
4,641
last push Oct 10, 2026
How sanitize-html is used
sanitize-html is a dependency in 38 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #29 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use Zod (63.2%), Playwright (JavaScript) (57.9%), ESLint (92.1%).
Often used with sanitize-html
| Zod | 63.2% of sanitize-html projects · 3.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 57.9% of sanitize-html projects · 6.6× more than average |
| ESLint | 92.1% of sanitize-html projects · 2.4× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 78.9% of sanitize-html projects · 2.3× more than average |
| Prettier | 55.3% of sanitize-html projects · 3.2× more than average |
| TypeScript | 89.5% of sanitize-html projects · 1.6× more than average |
| React Hook Form Resolvers | 31.6% of sanitize-html projects · 4.5× more than average |
| Husky | 31.6% of sanitize-html projects · 5.0× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list sanitize-html as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install sanitize-html |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (19), Next.js (18), Python (1) |
| Example projects | ChrisTitusTech/website, confluentinc/vscode, Hive-Academy/ptah-extension, gopaljilab/Clinical-Insight-Engine, Nsttt/my-portfolio |
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