diff --git a/frontend/src/components/updates/details.tsx b/frontend/src/components/updates/details.tsx
index e342cca3a..45eb75c70 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/updates/details.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/updates/details.tsx
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import { Link } from "react-router-dom";
 import { fmt_duration, fmt_operation, fmt_version } from "@lib/formatting";
 import {
   cn,
-  sanitizeOnlySpan,
+  updateLogToHtml,
   usableResourcePath,
   version_is_none,
 } from "@lib/utils";
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ const UpdateDetailsContent = ({
                   <CardDescription>stdout</CardDescription>
                   <pre
                     dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
-                      __html: sanitizeOnlySpan(log.stdout),
+                      __html: updateLogToHtml(log.stdout),
                     }}
                     className="max-h-[500px] overflow-y-auto"
                   />
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ const UpdateDetailsContent = ({
                   <CardDescription>stderr</CardDescription>
                   <pre
                     dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
-                      __html: sanitizeOnlySpan(log.stderr),
+                      __html: updateLogToHtml(log.stderr),
                     }}
                     className="max-h-[500px] overflow-y-auto"
                   />
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/utils.ts b/frontend/src/lib/utils.ts
index a1f036557..2b3d6a500 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/utils.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/utils.ts
@@ -112,6 +112,16 @@ export const sanitizeOnlySpan = (log: string) => {
   });
 };
 
+/**
+ * Converts the ansi colors in an Update log to html.
+ * sanitizes incoming log first for any eg. script tags.
+ * @param log incoming log string
+ */
+export const updateLogToHtml = (log: string) => {
+  if (!log) return "No log.";
+  return convert.toHtml(sanitizeOnlySpan(log));
+};
+
 const convert = new Convert();
 /**
  * Converts the ansi colors in log to html.