HTML Tags in Perspective

[jaspinall]

Hello There,

I am just wondering if there is a way to interpret HTML Tags in Perspective like there is in Vision. I.e if I have a label in perspective and link its text to “Test” is there a way to have it interpret those HTML Tags?

Many Thanks

[PGriffith]

Nope. Web browsers do not want you to be able to insert (actually validated) markup live in a page; it's a huge security risk. Some more info from someone far smarter than I is here:

How to Insert a Line Break in a String in Perspective

Text displayed in the web is almost always sanitized for safety and security reasons and perspective is no different there. The text you set as a prop (with very specific exceptions such as in the markdown component) is never submitted to the page as interpretable markup. Doing so would open up all kinds of security risks and injection opportunities. While the markdown component does provide the ability to allow markup, I’d be careful allowing it due to the potential risks involved. In your e…

As for what you're actually looking to do - take a look at the Markdown component. It supports, as the name implies, Markdown, a very limited formatting "language" that degrades gracefully to plain text but also allows custom hyperlinks, inline styling to a certain degree, etc.

[jaspinall]

Thank you @PGriffith .