Trying to convert text inside a text_area to HTML

Question

I'm doing a sort of blog in Rails, and when I put something like

Hello, <b> how are you? </b>

inside the text_area and I send it, I see that it was saved as a plain text, and the HTML inside it is not recognized. The only thing I want is that every single HTML tag that I put in the text_area be interpreted as HTML and not as a plain text.

For example, the first code should be shown in my page like this:

Hello, how are you?

This is the code of the post's view new (in HAML):

= form_for @post do |f|
    .form
        .flabel= f.label :title
        = f.text_field :title
        .flabel= f.label :content
        = f.text_area :content
        .submit= f.submit "Create"

How could I do this without HTMLArea or things like that?

Thank you!!

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 28 '12 at 01:58

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What about raw helper? Try the folliwing <%= raw @post.content %> in your view.

answered May 28 '12 at 01:58

Sergey Kishenin

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Thank you! All I had to do is to put the raw method just as you said! – Matías H Acosta May 28 '12 at 02:34

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 28 '12 at 02:53

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I think <%= @post.content.html_safe %> would also work.

answered May 28 '12 at 02:53

larryzhao

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Trying to convert text inside a text_area to HTML

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