Is it safe to click on a JSFiddle or JS Bin link

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In forums I see more and more questions that use JSFiddle or JS Bin to share live examples.

Are these links safe?

Would it be possible that somebody includes malicious code in a public JSFiddle or JS Bin page?

Best Answer

Usually the risk is in being redirected to malicious code from server side. I don't think jsfiddle or jsbin have the capacity to harm as they are client side without there being malicious server side code that they are somehow perpetuating.

Related Solutions

Clear the template in JS Bin

It may sound stupid but removing the content in both windows left and right and saving it as an template creates a blank state.

If you want to have the original template back here's the data:

if (document.getElementById('hello')) {
  document.getElementById('hello').innerHTML = 'Hello World - this was inserted using JavaScript';
}

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8 />
<title>JS Bin</title>
<!--[if IE]>
  <script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<style>
  article, aside, figure, footer, header, hgroup, 
  menu, nav, section { display: block; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
  <p id="hello">Hello World</p>
</body>
</html>

Clearing your cookies for this site will also bring back this original template.