Inserting the iframe into react component

I have a small problem. After requesting a data from a service I got an iframe code in response.

<iframe src="https://www.example.com/show?data..." width="540" height="450"></iframe>

I would like to pass this in as a props to my modal component and display it but when I simply {this.props.iframe} it in the render function it is obviously displaying it as a string.

What is the best way to display it as html in react or using JSX?

If you don't want to use dangerouslySetInnerHTML then you can use the below mentioned solution

var Iframe = React.createClass({     
  render: function() {
    return(         
      <div>          
        <iframe src={this.props.src} height={this.props.height} width={this.props.width}/>         
      </div>
    )
  }
});

ReactDOM.render(
  <Iframe src="http://plnkr.co/" height="500" width="500"/>,
  document.getElementById('example')
);

here live demo is available Demo

You can use property dangerouslySetInnerHTML, like this

const Component = React.createClass({
  iframe: function () {
    return {
      __html: this.props.iframe
    }
  },

  render: function() {
    return (
      <div>
        <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={ this.iframe() } />
      </div>
    );
  }
});

const iframe = '<iframe src="https://www.example.com/show?data..." width="540" height="450"></iframe>'; 

ReactDOM.render(
  <Component iframe={iframe} />,
  document.getElementById('container')
);

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react-dom.min.js"></script>
<div id="container"></div>

also, you can copy all attributes from the string(based on the question, you get iframe as a string from a server) which contains <iframe> tag and pass it to new <iframe> tag, like that

/**
 * getAttrs
 * returns all attributes from TAG string
 * @return Object
 */
const getAttrs = (iframeTag) => {
  var doc = document.createElement('div');
  doc.innerHTML = iframeTag;

  const iframe = doc.getElementsByTagName('iframe')[0];
  return [].slice
    .call(iframe.attributes)
    .reduce((attrs, element) => {
      attrs[element.name] = element.value;
      return attrs;
    }, {});
}

const Component = React.createClass({
  render: function() {
    return (
      <div>
        <iframe {...getAttrs(this.props.iframe) } />
      </div>
    );
  }
});

const iframe = '<iframe src="https://www.example.com/show?data..." width="540" height="450"></iframe>'; 

ReactDOM.render(
  <Component iframe={iframe} />,
  document.getElementById('container')
);

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react-dom.min.js"></script>
<div id="container"><div>

With ES6 you can now do it like this

Example Codepen URl to load

const iframe = '<iframe height="265" style="width: 100%;" scrolling="no" title="fx." src="//codepen.io/ycw/embed/JqwbQw/?height=265&theme-id=0&default-tab=js,result" frameborder="no" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true">See the Pen <a href="https://codepen.io/ycw/pen/JqwbQw/">fx.</a> by ycw(<a href="https://codepen.io/ycw">@ycw</a>) on <a href="https://codepen.io">CodePen</a>.</iframe>';

A function component to load Iframe

function Iframe(props) {
  return (<div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={ {__html:  props.iframe?props.iframe:""}} />);
}

Usage:

import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <h1>Iframe Demo</h1>
      <Iframe iframe={iframe} />,
    </div>
  );
}

const rootElement = document.getElementById("root");
ReactDOM.render(<App />, rootElement);

Edit on CodeSandbox:

https://codesandbox.io/s/react-iframe-demo-g3vst

Inserting the iframe into react component

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