html.tags

Type:

type TagsConfig = HtmlTag | HtmlTagHandler | Array<HtmlTag | HtmlTagHandler>;

Default: undefined

Modifies the tags that are injected into the HTML page.

In Rsbuild plugins, you can modify tags by using api.modifyHTMLTags hook.

Basic example

For example, add a script tag to the head and inject it after the existing tags:

rsbuild.config.ts

export default {
  html: {
    tags: [
      {
        tag: 'script',
        attrs: { src: 'https://example.com/script.js' },
      },
    ],
  },
};

The generated HTML file will look like:

<html>
  <head>
    <!-- some other head tags... -->
    <script src="https://example.com/script.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <!-- some other body tags... -->
  </body>
</html>

Tag object

html.tags can accept an array, where each element is a HtmlTag object that describes the tag to be injected.

type HtmlTag = {
  tag: string;
  attrs?: Record<string, string | boolean | null | undefined>;
  children?: string;
  hash?: boolean | string | ((url: string, hash: string) => string);
  publicPath?: boolean | string | ((url: string, publicPath: string) => string);
  append?: boolean;
  head?: boolean;
  metadata?: Record<string, any>;
};

tag

Type: string
Default: undefined

The HTML tag name to be generated. Should be a valid HTML element name.

For example, inject a script tag and a link tag:

rsbuild.config.ts

export default {
  html: {
    tags: [
      // Result: <script src="https://example.com/script.js"></script>
      {
        tag: 'script',
        attrs: { src: 'https://example.com/script.js' },
      },
      // Result: <link href="https://example.com/style.css" rel="stylesheet">
      {
        tag: 'link',
        attrs: { href: 'https://example.com/style.css', rel: 'stylesheet' },
      },
    ],
  },
};

attrs

Type: Record<string, string | boolean | null | undefined>
Default: undefined

HTML attributes to be applied to the tag.

string values will be rendered as attribute="value"
true renders as boolean attribute (e.g., <input disabled>)
false or null or undefined values will omit the attribute

For example, inject a script tag with src and type attributes:

rsbuild.config.ts

export default {
  html: {
    tags: [
      // Result: <script src="https://example.com/script.js" type="text/javascript" defer></script>
      {
        tag: 'script',
        attrs: {
          src: 'https://example.com/script.js',
          type: 'text/javascript',
          defer: true,
        },
      },
    ],
  },
};

children

Type: string
Default: undefined

The innerHTML content of the tag. The content is inserted as-is without HTML escaping, so ensure it is safe to prevent XSS vulnerabilities.

rsbuild.config.ts

export default {
  html: {
    tags: [
      // Result: <script>console.log("Hello, world!");</script>
      {
        tag: 'script',
        children: 'console.log("Hello, world!");',
      },
    ],
  },
};

hash

Type: boolean | string | ((url: string, hash: string) => string)
Default: false

Controls whether to add a hash query parameter to asset URLs for cache invalidation, only affects the src attribute of the script tag and the href attribute of the link tag.

false: No hash query
true: Generate hash based on HTML content
string: Uses a custom hash string
function: Custom hash generation via a function

rsbuild.config.ts

export default {
  html: {
    tags: [
      // Result: <script src="https://example.com/script.js?8327ec63"></script>
      {
        tag: 'script',
        attrs: { src: 'https://example.com/script.js' },
        hash: true,
      },
    ],
  },
};

publicPath

Type: boolean | string | ((url: string, publicPath: string) => string)
Default: true

Controls whether to prepend the asset prefix to resource URLs. Only affects the src attribute of the script tag and the href attribute of the link tag.

true: Prepends asset prefix to the URL
false: Uses the URL as-is
string: Uses a custom prefix
function: Custom path transformation via a function

rsbuild.config.ts

export default {
  output: {
    assetPrefix: 'https://cdn.example.com/',
  },
  html: {
    tags: [
      // Result: <script src="https://cdn.example.com/script.js"></script>
      {
        tag: 'script',
        attrs: { src: '/script.js' },
        publicPath: true,
      },
    ],
  },
};

append

Type: boolean
Default: true

Controls whether to insert the tag after existing tags.

true: Insert after existing tags
false: Insert before existing tags

rsbuild.config.ts

export default {
  html: {
    tags: [
      {
        tag: 'script',
        attrs: { src: 'https://example.com/script.js' },
        append: false,
      },
    ],
  },
};

See Injection position for more details.

head

Type: boolean
Default: auto-detect

Specifies whether to inject the tag into the HTML <head> element.

true: Inject into <head>
false: Inject into <body>

rsbuild.config.ts

export default {
  html: {
    tags: [
      {
        tag: 'script',
        attrs: { src: 'https://example.com/script.js' },
        head: false,
      },
    ],
  },
};

For elements allowed in the <head>, the default is true; for other elements, the default is false.

Allowed element types in the <head> include:

title
base
link
style
meta
script
noscript
template

See Injection position for more details.

metadata

Type: Record<string, any>
Default: undefined

The metadata object for tags, used to store additional information about tags. metadata does not affect the generated HTML content.

For example, Rsbuild plugins can add metadata to tags to identify their source; in subsequent processes, you can perform special handling on tags based on the metadata:

rsbuild.config.ts

const myPlugin = {
  name: 'my-plugin',
  setup(api) {
    api.modifyHTMLTags(({ headTags, bodyTags }) => {
      headTags.push({
        tag: 'script',
        attrs: { src: 'https://example.com/script.js' },
        metadata: {
          from: 'my-plugin',
        },
      });
      return { headTags, bodyTags };
    });
  },
};

export default {
  plugins: [myPlugin],
  html: {
    tags: [
      (tags) => {
        return tags.map((tag) => {
          if (tag.metadata?.from === 'my-plugin') {
            return {
              ...tag,
              // ...extra options
            };
          }
          return tag;
        });
      },
    ],
  },
};

Injection position

The final injection position of the tag is determined by the head and append options.

append: Defines the injection position of the current tag relative to existing tags, defaults to true
head: Specifies whether to add the current tag to the HTML <head> element, defaults to true for element types allowed in the <head>, otherwise false.
If two tag objects have the same head and append options, they will be inserted into the same area and hold their relative positions to each other.

<html>
  <head>
    <!-- tags with `{ head: true, append: false }` here -->
    <!-- existing head tags... -->
    <!-- tags with `{ head: true, append: true }` here -->
  </head>
  <body>
    <!-- tags with `{ head: false, append: false }` here -->
    <!-- existing body tags... -->
    <!-- tags with `{ head: false, append: true }` here -->
  </body>
</html>

Tags handler

type HtmlTagContext = {
  hash: string;
  entryName: string;
  outputName: string;
  publicPath: string;
};

type HtmlTagHandler = (
  tags: HtmlTag[],
  context: HtmlTagContext,
) => HtmlTag[] | void;

html.tags can also accept functions that can arbitrarily modify tags by writing logic to the callback, often used to ensure the relative position of tags while inserting them.

The callback function accepts a tag list as an argument and needs to modify or return a new tag array directly.

rsbuild.config.ts

export default {
  html: {
    tags: [
      (tags) => [{ tag: 'script', attrs: { src: 'a.js' } }, ...tags],
      (tags) => {
        // Modify 'a.js' tag
        const target = tags.find((tag) => tag.attrs?.src === 'a.js');
        if (target) {
          target.attrs ||= {};
          target.attrs.defer = true;
        }
      },
      (tags) => {
        // Insert 'b.js' after 'a.js'
        const targetIndex = tags.findIndex((tag) => tag.attrs?.src === 'a.js');

        tags.splice(targetIndex + 1, 0, {
          tag: 'script',
          attrs: { src: 'd.js' },
        });
      },
    ],
  },
};

The HTML file will look like:

<html>
  <head>
    <script src="/a.js" defer></script>
    <script src="/d.js"></script>
    <!-- some other head tags... -->
  </head>
  <body>
    <!-- some body tags... -->
  </body>
</html>

Limitation

This configuration modifies the content of HTML files after Rsbuild completes building, and does not resolve or parse new modules. It cannot be used to import uncompiled source code files, nor can it replace configurations such as source.preEntry.

For example, for the following project:

web-app
├── src
│   ├── index.tsx
│   └── polyfill.ts
└── rsbuild.config.ts

rsbuild.config.ts

export default {
  output: {
    assetPrefix: 'https://example.com/',
  },
  html: {
    tags: [{ tag: 'script', attrs: { src: './src/polyfill.ts' } }],
  },
};

The tag object here will be directly added to the HTML file after processing, but the polyfill.ts will not be transpiled or bundled, so there will be a 404 error when processing this script in the application.

<body>
  <script src="https://example.com/src/polyfill.ts"></script>
</body>

Reasonable use cases include:

Injecting static assets with determined paths on CDN.
Injecting inline scripts that need to be loaded on the first screen.

For example, the usage of the following example:

web-app
├── src
│   └── index.tsx
├── public
│   └── service-worker.js
└── rsbuild.config.ts

rsbuild.config.ts

function report() {
  fetch('https://www.example.com/report');
}

export default {
  html: {
    output: {
      assetPrefix: 'https://example.com/',
    },
    tags: [
      // Inject asset from the `public` directory.
      { tag: 'script', attrs: { src: 'service-worker.js' } },
      // Inject asset from other CDN url.
      {
        tag: 'script',
        publicPath: false,
        attrs: { src: 'https://cdn.example.com/foo.js' },
      },
      // Inject inline script.
      {
        tag: 'script',
        children: report.toString() + '\nreport()',
      },
    ],
  },
};

The result will look like:

<body>
  <script src="https://example.com/service-worker.js"></script>
  <script src="https://cdn.example.com/foo.js"></script>
  <script>
    function report() {
      fetch('https://www.example.com/report');
    }
    report();
  </script>
</body>

Version history

Version	Changes
v1.4.7	Added support for `metadata` option

#html.tags

#Basic example

#Tag object

#tag

#attrs

#children

#hash

#publicPath

#append

#head

#metadata

#Injection position

#Tags handler

#Limitation

#Version history

#html.tags

#Basic example

#Tag object

#tag

#attrs

#children

#hash

#publicPath

#append

#head

#metadata

#Injection position

#Tags handler

#Limitation

#Version history

html.tags

Basic example

Tag object

tag

attrs

children

hash

publicPath

append

head

metadata

Injection position

Tags handler

Limitation

Version history

html.tags

Basic example

Tag object

tag

attrs

children

hash

publicPath

append

head

metadata

Injection position

Tags handler

Limitation

Version history