Next.js - How to add a tag inside the with literal onload attribute string value?

Question

On a Next.js project, I'd like to get some initial HTML with this exact same content inside the <head>:

<link href="..." rel="stylesheet" media="print" onload="this.media='all'" />

What I have in my code, inside Next.js's <Head> component, is:

{ /* @ts-ignore */ }
<link href="..." rel="stylesheet" media="print" onload="this.media='all'" />

Without the @ts-ignore it says:

Property 'onload' does not exist on type 'DetailedHTMLProps<LinkHTMLAttributes, HTMLLinkElement>'. Did you mean 'onLoad'? ts(2322)

And if I use onLoad instead of onload I get:

Type 'string' is not assignable to type '(event: SyntheticEvent<HTMLLinkElement, Event>) => void'. ts(2322)

The problem is that the server-side generated HTML that I get has:

<link href="..." rel="stylesheet" media="print" />

And only once the page has rehydrated it updates to:

<link href="..." rel="stylesheet" media="all" onload="this.media='all'">

I've found this issue on GitHub but it doesn't help as I'm not using Google Fonts but Typography.com, so I can't use next-google-fonts: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/12984

I'm thinking about adding a ref to that link tag and setting the attribute using setAttribute, which will hopefully work on the server-side as well, but wondering if there's a simpler way to do it.

What I'd do is create a component called link that wraps Next/Link then set the logic up in there. so you'd have Link-> - that way the events should work properly I think. — Mrk Fldig, Oct 04 '20 at 09:27
@Danziger did you find a solution for the problem? I ran into the exact same issue. — RumTraubeNuss, Apr 10 '21 at 09:05
@RumTraubeNuss Yes, you can see this working here: https://andorratechvalley.com/. I have just added an answer with the solution. Hope it helps (: — Danziger, Apr 18 '21 at 17:57

Danziger · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-18T17:54:53.703

So I eventually fixed this using a <style> tag with dangerouslySetInnerHTML in a custom _document.js. All together it should look like this:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com" crossOrigin="anonymous" />

<link rel="preload" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inconsolata:wght@400;600&family=Karla:wght@700&display=swap" as="style" />

<style dangerouslySetInnerHTML={ {
  __html: `</style>
    <link
      rel="stylesheet"
      href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inconsolata:wght@400;600&family=Karla:wght@700&display=swap"
      media="print"
      onload="this.media='all';"
    />
    <style>`
} }></style>

<noscript>
  <link
    rel="stylesheet"
    type="text/css"
    href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inconsolata:wght@400;600&family=Karla:wght@700&display=swap" />
</noscript>

Which generates the following output:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com" crossorigin="anonymous"/>

<link rel="preload" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inconsolata:wght@400;600&amp;family=Karla:wght@700&amp;display=swap" as="style"/>

<style></style>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inconsolata:wght@400;600&family=Karla:wght@700&display=swap" media="print" onload="this.media='all';" />

<style></style>

<noscript><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inconsolata:wght@400;600&amp;family=Karla:wght@700&amp;display=swap"/></noscript>

Not pretty, but better than having a <div> inside the <head> (which is not interpreted correctly by all browsers).

There's an open RFC to create a RawHTML component or extend Fragment to accept dangerouslySetInnerHTML so that something like this is possible without hacks, but it's been more than a year since it was created.

Also, there's quite a long discussion about this as well with a few different solutions (hacks) that seem to work.

You can see the solution working here: https://andorratechvalley.com/

Next.js - How to add a tag inside the with literal onload attribute string value?

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