Question

I am working on a simple Rails/jQuery HTML templater app which stores a series of pre-designed templates in a database (at the moment I’ve just saved these as partials to get the basic concept working) and on clicking ‘Show code’ alongside any one of these template records, a js.erb script should place the corresponding partial within ‘pre’ tags dynamically via JS on that page so the user can see the raw html code.

At the moment it’s working but I get the rendered html coming back and not the raw HTML that I’m looking for. Here’s the js:

$("div#template-view").html("<pre><code><%= escape_javascript( render :partial => "core_template") %></code></pre>");

So pray tell, what obvious thing am I missing!? 🙂

Thanks

Allan

Answer 1

Use

$("div#template-view").text("...")

instead. This will not parse the code