Rendering inline HTML from Play Framework using Scala?

Question

How do I render inline HTML from Play 2, without using an external template file?

def checkStatus = Action {
  val status = ...
  if (status.ok) {
    Ok("Status OK")
  } else {
    // Oops, this renders the literal text instead of the HTML I wanted:

    Ok("Bad status, check out <a href='http://help.us.com/'>our help page</a>")
  }
}

Infinity · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-28 12:34:14Z

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Ok("Hello World!") sets the Content-Type header to text/plain unless explicitly specified:

Ok("Bad status, check out <a href='http://help.us.com/'>our help page</a>").as(HTML)

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answered Apr 28, 2013 at 12:34

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biesior · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-28 12:34:39Z

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When you are rendering the view, Play recognizes its type (at least for html, xml, and txt), but when you want to return common String you need to instruct which type it is (otherwise it's assumed as text/plain)

According to Manipaliting response doc you need to return with with the type:

 BadRequest("Bad status, check out <a href='http://help.us.com/'>our help page</a>").as("text/html")

answered Apr 28, 2013 at 12:34

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