A html string is escaped in haml file

Question

#test
  - html = "<a href='http://www.a.com'>Test</a>"
  = html

The output is

<div id='test'>
  &lt;a href='http://www.a.com'&gt;Test&lt;/a&gt;
</div>

But I want a output:

<div id='test'>
  <a href='http://www.a.com'>Test</a>
</div>

Anyone has solutions? Thanks.

score 35 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 18 '11 at 06:51

35

haml also provides with its equivalent tag to rails 3's raw method: !=, eg:

!= html

answered Jan 18 '11 at 06:51

James Chen

score 34 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 14 '11 at 10:20

34

= raw html

or:

= html.html_safe

answered Jan 14 '11 at 10:20

gunn

2

`html_safe` only works for strings, that's why I prefer `!=` (see @james-chen's answer below or `raw`. – iGEL Jun 06 '13 at 09:09
Is there a notable difference between `= raw html`, `= html.html_safe`, and `!= html`? **Edit:** [This question covers some differences](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4251284/raw-vs-html-safe-vs-h-to-unescape-html). – Dennis Jun 17 '14 at 20:37

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

6

There was a change in rails 3 so that all content is now html escaped by default. See this blog post from Yehuda Katz for more details.

In order to print the html directly you need to use html_safe on your variable:

#content
 .title
   %h1= @title
   = @content.html_safe

For a more complex example, see this answer to a similar question.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

Community

answered Jan 14 '11 at 10:37

tomeduarte

3 Answers3