# Content Security Policy (CSP) — Requiring trusted types

> The require-trusted-types-for and trusted-types directives enable you to defend against client-side cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, by ensuring that any input has been passed through a transformation to make it safe before it is passed to a web platform API that might otherwise execute it as cod

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The require-trusted-types-for and trusted-types directives enable you to defend against client-side cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, by ensuring that any input has been passed through a transformation to make it safe before it is passed to a web platform API that might otherwise execute it as code. The require-trusted-types-for and trusted-types directives can be used to enforce the Trusted Types API. This allows you to defend against client-side cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by mandating that any input must be passed through a transformation function, providing an opportunity to make it safe before it is sent to a web platform API that might otherwise execute it as code.

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