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Asked: 2026-06-11T06:29:38+00:00

The problem is that a | at the end of a line (seperated by

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The problem is that a | at the end of a line (seperated by whitespace) is recognized as syntax for advanced line-breaks. What to do if you want to get this character as output?

Example

Say you want to create a menu like

Section 1 | Section 2 | ...

Note: if this is just what you want then take a look at concatenate link_to with pipe.

Wether or not a link is shown depends on a certain condition. In HAML/Ruby on Rails this could look like which does not work

%div.menu
    -if condition1?
        #{link_to 'Section 1', section_1_path} |
    -if condition2?
        #{link_to 'Section 2', section_2_path} |
    -if condition3?
        ...

Work-around

As a (somehow dirty) work-around I changed the code:

%div.menu
    -if condition1?
        #{link_to 'Section 1', section_1_path} #{'|'}
    -if condition2?
        #{link_to 'Section 2', section_2_path} #{'|'}
    -if condition3?
        ...
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  1. Editorial Team

    No need for escaping, just the same indentation than the element u want separated. 

    %div.menu
  -if condition1?
    #{link_to 'Section 1', section_1_path} 
    |
  -if condition2?
    #{link_to 'Section 2', section_2_path} 
    |
  -if condition3?
      ...

    you can try this in browser:
    online haml editor: rendera
    or
    html2haml

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