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53. Standardize HTML sanitizing

Date: 2024-10-24

Status

Accepted

Context

• The email content contains many unnecessary html attribute tags. We want to display the email content best on multiple platforms.

Decision

• We sanitize the html before displaying the email.
  • Customize the sanitize html library to allow attributes, tags and className to be used.
  • The processing order is from tags -> attributes -> className

Consequences

• Email content is cleaner. Displays well on all platforms. Any changes to sanitize html are updated here