--- title: New alternatives to innerHTML | daily.dev description: New alternatives to innerHTML have been implemented in browsers. The setHTML function is a safe method that does not execute script, while setHTMLUnsafe is an... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/new-alternatives-to-innerhtml-kstkek6je twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: New alternatives to innerHTML | daily.dev og:description: New alternatives to innerHTML have been implemented in browsers. The setHTML function is a safe method that does not execute script, while setHTMLUnsafe is an... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/new-alternatives-to-innerhtml-kstkek6je og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KstkEK6Je.png og:image:alt: New alternatives to innerHTML og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # New alternatives to innerHTML **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 3 min read · 177 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary New alternatives to innerHTML have been implemented in browsers. The setHTML function is a safe method that does not execute script, while setHTMLUnsafe is an unsafe method that poses a risk of XSS attacks. The Sanitizer API helps put the naming of setHTMLUnsafe in context. The setHTMLUnsafe function is useful for declarative shadow DOM. The getHTML function allows users to retrieve HTML content, with the ability to serialize shadow DOM. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@idoshamun** · 5 upvotes > Once `setHtml` will land it will be so much easier and faster to send html over the wire with having to care about sanitization **@apperside** · 4 upvotes > Really good news, but we really had to wait for 2024 for this method?? 🤷 ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#html](https://daily.dev/tags/html), [#dom](https://daily.dev/tags/dom) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/new-alternatives-to-innerhtml-kstkek6je) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"New alternatives to innerHTML","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/new-alternatives-to-innerhtml-kstkek6je","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/new-alternatives-to-innerhtml-kstkek6je"},"datePublished":"2024-05-08T20:37:54.629Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:22:04.995Z","description":"New alternatives to innerHTML have been implemented in browsers. 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