In WordPress's PHP library there is a function sanitize_key used to generate database keys and HTML IDs. I'd like to generate a slug from a title that can be used as an HTML ID, from within a Gutenberg block. Is there an equivalent (or close to equivalent) function in the Gutenberg library, or must I make my own?

In WordPress's PHP library there is a function sanitize_key used to generate database keys and HTML IDs. I'd like to generate a slug from a title that can be used as an HTML ID, from within a Gutenberg block. Is there an equivalent (or close to equivalent) function in the Gutenberg library, or must I make my own?

• javascript
• slug
• block-editor
• id
• sanitization

• The function cleanForSlug in Gutenberg's url.js seems to do the job. However I'm not sure if this is available to import into a Gutenberg block. – Sean Commented Mar 19, 2020 at 22:15

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Use import { cleanForSlug } from "@wordpress/editor"; in your block.js file to import the function in and then use the it like cleanForSlug(stringToClean) to create the ID's.