Rails - Render HTML output from Database

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I have a working form which stores data in my database and I can get this data and display it on my site.

I now want to store HTML code directly in the database to enable styling. For example I want my title to have a h3 format. I can write this into my form and it will be stored to the database.

<h3>Test Title</h3>

But when I display the output of this form it shows the h3 tag in cleartext (of course). I want to know how to render this as html code? Can you help me?

Rails Fan · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-23 11:39:36Z

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You can do it like this:

<%= raw @html_source %>

I like to note that raw is more "user-friendly" than html_safe, because it silently output an empty string for nil too. While html_safe would throw

* NoMethodError Exception: undefined method `html_safe' for nil:NilClass

edited Mar 23, 2014 at 11:39

answered Mar 23, 2014 at 11:30

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tompave · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-23 11:35:07Z

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or you can declare the string as html_safe:

my_string.html_safe

answered Mar 23, 2014 at 11:35

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