Question

• I am collecting user input and storing them in database with html tags to retain the formatting.
• for example: an response coming from database could be

asdsad <br/>- 12321312<br/>- 332423<br/>* e23ee<br/>$ dweqw

• Usually I care only about line breaks
• While reading this response from django-template, I do

 <div id="right_suggest_div" name={{ suggestion.key }}>   
   {{ suggestion.text }}  
   <p class="padding">Votes: {{ suggestion.votes }} </p>
 </div>

Question:
– Is it possible to render suggestion.text as html?

Answer 1

By default Django will replace symbols like “>” and “<” with HTML entities.
I imagine that making it skip escaping the HTML would remedy the situation.

{% autoescape off %}
<div id="right_suggest_div" name={{ suggestion.key }}>   
   {{ suggestion.text }}  
   <p class="padding">Votes: {{ suggestion.votes }} </p>
 </div>

{% endautoescape %} 

or use the safe filter {{ suggestion.text|safe }}