Package org.jsoup.safety

Class Safelist

java.lang.Object
org.jsoup.safety.Safelist
Direct Known Subclasses:
Whitelist
public class Safelist
extends Object
Safe-lists define what HTML (elements and attributes) to allow through the cleaner. Everything else is removed.

Start with one of the defaults:

If you need to allow more through (please be careful!), tweak a base safelist with:

You can remove any setting from an existing safelist with:

The cleaner and these safelists assume that you want to clean a body fragment of HTML (to add user supplied HTML into a templated page), and not to clean a full HTML document. If the latter is the case, either wrap the document HTML around the cleaned body HTML, or create a safelist that allows html and head elements as appropriate.

If you are going to extend a safelist, please be very careful. Make sure you understand what attributes may lead to XSS attack vectors. URL attributes are particularly vulnerable and require careful validation. See the XSS Filter Evasion Cheat Sheet for some XSS attack examples (that jsoup will safegaurd against the default Cleaner and Safelist configuration).

  • Constructor Details

  • Method Details

    • none

      public static Safelist none()
      This safelist allows only text nodes: all HTML will be stripped.
      Returns:
      safelist

    • simpleText

      public static Safelist simpleText()
      This safelist allows only simple text formatting: b, em, i, strong, u. All other HTML (tags and attributes) will be removed.
      Returns:
      safelist

    • basic

      public static Safelist basic()

      This safelist allows a fuller range of text nodes: a, b, blockquote, br, cite, code, dd, dl, dt, em, i, li, ol, p, pre, q, small, span, strike, strong, sub, sup, u, ul, and appropriate attributes.

      Links (a elements) can point to http, https, ftp, mailto, and have an enforced rel=nofollow attribute.

      Does not allow images.

      Returns:
      safelist

    • basicWithImages

      public static Safelist basicWithImages()
      This safelist allows the same text tags as basic(), and also allows img tags, with appropriate attributes, with src pointing to http or https.
      Returns:
      safelist

    • relaxed

      public static Safelist relaxed()
      This safelist allows a full range of text and structural body HTML: a, b, blockquote, br, caption, cite, code, col, colgroup, dd, div, dl, dt, em, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, i, img, li, ol, p, pre, q, small, span, strike, strong, sub, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, u, ul

      Links do not have an enforced rel=nofollow attribute, but you can add that if desired.

      Returns:
      safelist

    • addTags

      public Safelist addTags(String... tags)
      Add a list of allowed elements to a safelist. (If a tag is not allowed, it will be removed from the HTML.)
      Parameters:
      tags - tag names to allow
      Returns:
      this (for chaining)

    • removeTags

      public Safelist removeTags(String... tags)
      Remove a list of allowed elements from a safelist. (If a tag is not allowed, it will be removed from the HTML.)
      Parameters:
      tags - tag names to disallow
      Returns:
      this (for chaining)

    • addAttributes

      public Safelist addAttributes(String tag, String... attributes)
      Add a list of allowed attributes to a tag. (If an attribute is not allowed on an element, it will be removed.)

      E.g.: addAttributes("a", "href", "class") allows href and class attributes on a tags.

      To make an attribute valid for all tags, use the pseudo tag :all, e.g. addAttributes(":all", "class").

      Parameters:
      tag - The tag the attributes are for. The tag will be added to the allowed tag list if necessary.
      attributes - List of valid attributes for the tag
      Returns:
      this (for chaining)

    • removeAttributes

      public Safelist removeAttributes(String tag, String... attributes)
      Remove a list of allowed attributes from a tag. (If an attribute is not allowed on an element, it will be removed.)

      E.g.: removeAttributes("a", "href", "class") disallows href and class attributes on a tags.

      To make an attribute invalid for all tags, use the pseudo tag :all, e.g. removeAttributes(":all", "class").

      Parameters:
      tag - The tag the attributes are for.
      attributes - List of invalid attributes for the tag
      Returns:
      this (for chaining)

    • addEnforcedAttribute

      public Safelist addEnforcedAttribute(String tag, String attribute, String value)
      Add an enforced attribute to a tag. An enforced attribute will always be added to the element. If the element already has the attribute set, it will be overridden with this value.

      E.g.: addEnforcedAttribute("a", "rel", "nofollow") will make all a tags output as <a href="..." rel="nofollow">

      Parameters:
      tag - The tag the enforced attribute is for. The tag will be added to the allowed tag list if necessary.
      attribute - The attribute name
      value - The enforced attribute value
      Returns:
      this (for chaining)

    • removeEnforcedAttribute

      public Safelist removeEnforcedAttribute(String tag, String attribute)
      Remove a previously configured enforced attribute from a tag.
      Parameters:
      tag - The tag the enforced attribute is for.
      attribute - The attribute name
      Returns:
      this (for chaining)

    • preserveRelativeLinks

      public Safelist preserveRelativeLinks(boolean preserve)
      Configure this Safelist to preserve relative links in an element's URL attribute, or convert them to absolute links. By default, this is false: URLs will be made absolute (e.g. start with an allowed protocol, like e.g. http://.

      Note that when handling relative links, the input document must have an appropriate base URI set when parsing, so that the link's protocol can be confirmed. Regardless of the setting of the preserve relative links option, the link must be resolvable against the base URI to an allowed protocol; otherwise the attribute will be removed.

      Parameters:
      preserve - true to allow relative links, false (default) to deny
      Returns:
      this Safelist, for chaining.
      See Also:
      addProtocols(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String...)

    • addProtocols

      public Safelist addProtocols(String tag, String attribute, String... protocols)
      Add allowed URL protocols for an element's URL attribute. This restricts the possible values of the attribute to URLs with the defined protocol.

      E.g.: addProtocols("a", "href", "ftp", "http", "https")

      To allow a link to an in-page URL anchor (i.e. <a href="#anchor">, add a #:
      E.g.: addProtocols("a", "href", "#")

      Parameters:
      tag - Tag the URL protocol is for
      attribute - Attribute name
      protocols - List of valid protocols
      Returns:
      this, for chaining

    • removeProtocols

      public Safelist removeProtocols(String tag, String attribute, String... removeProtocols)
      Remove allowed URL protocols for an element's URL attribute. If you remove all protocols for an attribute, that attribute will allow any protocol.

      E.g.: removeProtocols("a", "href", "ftp")

      Parameters:
      tag - Tag the URL protocol is for
      attribute - Attribute name
      removeProtocols - List of invalid protocols
      Returns:
      this, for chaining

    • isSafeTag

      protected boolean isSafeTag(String tag)
      Test if the supplied tag is allowed by this safelist
      Parameters:
      tag - test tag
      Returns:
      true if allowed

    • isSafeAttribute

      protected boolean isSafeAttribute(String tagName, Element el, Attribute attr)
      Test if the supplied attribute is allowed by this safelist for this tag
      Parameters:
      tagName - tag to consider allowing the attribute in
      el - element under test, to confirm protocol
      attr - attribute under test
      Returns:
      true if allowed