Adding line break to link_to in Rails

Question

I have a code that needs to be split into two lines so it looks nice. However when I try:

link_to "Some Text<br />Here",url_path

it will output the HTML too, even if I use html.html_safe like so:

html = ""
html += link_to "Some Text<br />Here",url_path
html.html_safe

How can I make it so "Here" will appear on a new line?

score 23 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '11 at 20:16

23

link_to "Some Text<br />Here".html_safe, url_path

answered Aug 01 '11 at 20:16

Jeremy Roman

score 19 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '11 at 20:25

19

A trick most Rails developers don't know is that link_to accepts a block:

<%= link_to(url_path) do %>
  Some Text
  <br />
  Here
<% end %>

answered Aug 01 '11 at 20:25

Mario Uher

though this does not address the html_safe issue – Jeff Paquette Aug 01 '11 at 20:29
2

There a no problems with `html_safe`. You can just throw everything into the block. – Mario Uher Aug 01 '11 at 20:32
1

This answer is a bit better IMO. If the link_to text had any user inputed data generated dynamically, this would be the safer bet. – Jeff Dec 02 '14 at 20:45

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