Question

I have a drop down box on my Django form that contains the ® HTML entity. Is there an easy way to get Django to mark it as safe?

This doesn’t work:

{{ form.myoptions.label_tag }}
{{ form.myoptions|safe }}

Edit:

I should mention that the drop down box is generated from a ForeignKey field.

Answer 1

You’re right – it doesn’t work… I suppose the easiest way is to mark it safe from python.

from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe

MY_CHOICES = [
    ('foo', mark_safe('& foo')),
    ('bar', 'bar'),
]

According to the source it looks like you can either define a ModelChoiceField.choices manually or write a new field and override label_from_instance.

class MyModelForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Foo
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(MyModelForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['foo'].choices = ((foo.id, mark_safe(foo.bar)) for foo in Foo.objects.all())



class SafeModelChoiceField(ModelChoiceField):
    def label_from_instance(self, obj): 
        return mark_safe(obj)

I think I prefer constructing the choices myself so that any other magical ModelForm field -> form field conversion isn’t overwritten.