Question

In my Grails GSP file I’m using the HTML meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

The problem is that Grails closes this tag and renders it as:

<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>

This fails W3C’s HTML validation (since my doctype is HTML and not XHTML).
Is there a fix for this? How can I get Grails to not interpret the
meta tag?

I’m using grails-1.2-M4.

Follow up:
I create the Grails bug GRAILS-5696 for this issue.

Answer 1

Not sure that this is the most beautiful solution, but at least it will work for your case:

<%= '<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">' %>

Well…this does not work since it is preprocessed by Grails before displayed as is.

So the only solution I see is to create a TagLib and output the content like this:

class MetaTagLib {

    static namespace = 'my'

    def meta = {
        out << "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=UTF-8\"/>"
    }
}

and use it like:

<my:meta />

It works. Tested.