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Asked: 2026-06-05T14:55:34+00:00

I’m trying to render a link preceded by an icon. I’m using Slim templating

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I’m trying to render a link preceded by an icon. I’m using Slim templating engine along with Bootstrap CSS.

Usually you could do this the following way:

<a href="#"><i class="icon-user"></i> My Profile</a>

According to Slim’s documentation, we can use == to render without escaping HTML. So, translating this to Slim, I tried the following variations:

li== link_to "<i class='icon-user'></i> My Profile", current_user
li== link_to "#{'<i class="icon-user"></i>'.html_safe} My Profile", current_user
li= link_to "#{'<i class="icon-user"></i>'.html_safe} My Profile", current_user

All variations rendered <a href="/users/1"><i class="icon-user"></i> My Profile</a> escaping the i tag.

How can I stop Slim or Rails from escaping html?

(Rails 3.2 with Slim 1.2.1)

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  1. Editorial Team

    You want to disable HTML escaping for the link_to argument, not the entire link_to result. You’re pretty close with your html_safe but your string interpolation is eating your “safe for HTML” flag. This should work better:

    li= link_to '<i class="icon-user"></i> My Profile'.html_safe, current_user
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