[angular] Angular 2 - innerHTML styling

I am getting chunks of HTML codes from HTTP calls. I put the HTML blocks in a variable and insert it on my page with[innerHTML] but i can not style the inserted HTML block. Does anyone have any suggestion how i might achieve this?

@Component({selector: 'calendar',
template: '<div [innerHTML]="calendar"></div>',
providers:[HomeService], 
styles: [` 
h3 {color:red;}
`})

The HTML that I want to style is the block contained in the variable "calendar".

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The answer is


If you are using sass as style preprocessor, you can switch back to native Sass compiler for dev dependency by:

npm install node-sass --save-dev

So that you can keep using /deep/ for development.


The recommended version by Günter Zöchbauer works fine, but I have an addition to make. In my case I had an unstyled html-element and I did not know how to style it. Therefore I designed a pipe to add styling to it.

import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core';
import { DomSanitizer, SafeHtml } from '@angular/platform-browser';


@Pipe({
    name: 'StyleClass'
})
export class StyleClassPipe implements PipeTransform {

    constructor(private sanitizer: DomSanitizer) { }
    transform(html: any, styleSelector: any, styleValue: any): SafeHtml {
        const style = ` style = "${styleSelector}: ${styleValue};"`;
        const indexPosition = html.indexOf('>');
        const newHtml = [html.slice(0, indexPosition), style, html.slice(indexPosition)].join('');
        return this.sanitizer.bypassSecurityTrustHtml(newHtml);
    }

}

Then you can add style to any html-element like this:

<span [innerhtml]="Variable | StyleClass: 'margin': '0'"> </span>

With:

Variable = '<p> Test </p>'

If you're trying to style dynamically added HTML elements inside an Angular component, this might be helpful:

// inside component class...
    
constructor(private hostRef: ElementRef) { }
    
getContentAttr(): string {
  const attrs = this.hostRef.nativeElement.attributes
  for (let i = 0, l = attrs.length; i < l; i++) {
    if (attrs[i].name.startsWith('_nghost-c')) {
      return `_ngcontent-c${attrs[i].name.substring(9)}`
    }
  }
}
    
ngAfterViewInit() {
  // dynamically add HTML element
  dynamicallyAddedHtmlElement.setAttribute(this.getContentAttr(), '')
}

My guess is that the convention for this attribute is not guaranteed to be stable between versions of Angular, so that one might run into problems with this solution when upgrading to a new version of Angular (although, updating this solution would likely be trivial in that case).


The simple solution you need to follow is

import { DomSanitizer } from '@angular/platform-browser';

constructor(private sanitizer: DomSanitizer){}

transformYourHtml(htmlTextWithStyle) {
    return this.sanitizer.bypassSecurityTrustHtml(htmlTextWithStyle);
}

Use the below method to allow css styles in innerhtml.

import { DomSanitizer, SafeHtml } from '@angular/platform-browser';
.
.
.
.
html: SafeHtml;

constructor(protected _sanitizer: DomSanitizer) {
this.html = this._sanitizer.bypassSecurityTrustHtml(`
<html>
  <head></head>
  <body>
    <div style="display:flex; color: blue;">
      <div>
        <h1>Hello World..!!!!!</h1>
      </div>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>`);
}

Example code stackblitz

Or use the below method to write directly in html. https://gist.github.com/klihelp/4dcac910124409fa7bd20f230818c8d1


We pull in content frequently from our CMS as [innerHTML]="content.title". We place the necessary classes in the application's root styles.scss file rather than in the component's scss file. Our CMS purposely strips out in-line styles so we must have prepared classes that the author can use in their content. Remember using {{content.title}} in the template will not render html from the content.