How to fix the dangerously SetInnerHTML did not match error in React
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Find out how I solved the error "`dangerouslySetInnerHTML` did not match", in a React application
I was trying to print the HTML contained in a prop, using dangerouslySetInnerHTML
, while I got this error in the browser console:
Warning: Prop `dangerouslySetInnerHTML` did not match.
This was a Next.js project, but the solution applies to any React code.
The string I was trying to print appeared for a while, and then disappeared. Quite strange!
It was even stranger when I tried to print a fixed HTML string, like this:
<p
dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
__html: '<p>test</p>'
}}></p>
The error message is cryptic but after a while, I realized I could not set a p
tag inside another p
tag.
Switching to:
<div
dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
__html: '<p>test</p>'
}}></div>
worked like a charm.
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