I have yet to try your suggestion, but this looks great! I am really
looking forward to trying it, thanks!!
On Mar 3, 4:54 pm, Jervis <jerv...@whit.com.au> wrote:
> On Mar 3, 3:51 pm, slenno1 <slen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey everyone,
> > I am currently working with a section of a site that takes user
> > input usingDjangoforms:
>
> > description = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea(attrs={'rows':
> > '10', 'cols': '80'}))
>
> > The only problem however is that this ignores anyhtmltags that are
> > added in by the user and just prints them along with the text entered
> > in by the user. For example, a user may type in "The quick brown fox
> > <b>jumps</b> over the lazy dog", with the word 'jumps' intended to be
> > bold, but thehtmltags are just printed a long with the text. Is this
> > because I am possibly using the wrong widget? Any feedback is greatly
> > appreciated, thanks!
>
> Hi, in your template where you have placed {{ model.description }}Djangowill
> automatically escape thehtmltags you place have input.
> The effect is what you are seeing now, they are displayed as text,
> rather than being interpreted ashtmltags. You can selectively turn
> this default behaviour off by marking the text as "safe"
>
> {{ model.description|safe }}
>
> The use of the word "safe" here implies that you are entirely sure
> that the content of "description" won't contain anything that will
> harm your website or your customers. The discussion about what can be
> considered "safe" has been had many times and it may pay you well to
> do some light reading on the matter. Many people use intermediate
> markup languages that don't have the full power ofhtml,Djangoitself
> provides template tags that can aid in rendering
> themhttp://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/#markupan example of
> on is herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language).
>
> Best of luck.
>
> Jervis
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