Question

How can I get this to output the span tags correctly: echo $this->Html->link('<span>Log in</span>', '/', array('title' => 'Log in', 'id' => 'login'));

I’ve tried using > < instead of the < and > but that doesn’t work either.

Answer 1

http://book.cakephp.org/view/1442/link

HTML special characters in $title will be converted to HTML entities. To disable this conversion, set the escape option to false in the $options array.

http://api.cakephp.org/class/html-helper#method-HtmlHelperlink

Options

escape Set to false to disable escaping of title and attributes.

echo $this->Html->link('<span>Log in</span>', '/',
          array('title' => 'Log in', 'id' => 'login', 'escape' => false));