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Asked: 2026-05-27T15:06:22+00:00

I make heavy use properties from bundles in my application as I strive to

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I make heavy use properties from bundles in my application as I strive to keep code maintainable in future. Because of this all HTML text is fetched from a key/value properties file eg. ‘index_en.properties’

This has become problematic where I need the browser to render bold text and I don’t find any topics online that address this problem.

Best solution I can then up would be to break every fetched value down with use of the 

<h:outputText> tags that are child elements of the `<b>` tags.

What I need here is a methodology/tips/solution from someone who uses property files often.

I tried using html escape codes directly in the properties file, but this does not work.

Any tips?

Thank you,
Yucca

PS I doubt CSS will help me here.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Put HTML <b> in bundle and use escape="false" on <h:outputText> to disable standard HTML escaping by the component:

    <h:outputText value="#{msg.text}" escape="false" />

    Be sure that you never do this on user-controlled input as it would put XSS attack holes open. Also be sure that you don’t go overboard with putting HTML in bundles. For basic text formatting with <b>, <u>, <i>, <s> and so on it’s okay, but not for semantic markup like <p>, <div>, <h1>, etc.

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