preventing template from converting html entities

[Federico Capoano]

Hello to all,

simple question:

I have the following HTML in a template:
<a href="#" title="More details on &quot;{{ villa.name }}&quot;
class="tooltip">

But it gets rendered this way:
<a href="#" title="More details on "{{ villa.name }}" class="tooltip">

That is, the &quot; entity is converted to the respective character,
". Very nice, but i'd need &quot;

Is there a filter or something i can use to tell the Django Template
System to render &quot; ?

Thanks in advance.

Federico

[Daniel Roseman]

If I've understood you correctly, it's not the templating system that
is converting it, but the browser. When a browser sees &quot; it will
print ".

To prevent this, you'll need to double-escape it - ie replace the &
with the encoded version, so you have &amp;quot;
--
DR.

[Alex Robbins]

I think you can do that with title={% filter force_escape
%}"{{ villa.name }}"{% endfilter %}. Haven't tried it though.

Alex

[Alex Robbins]

Oops, it would actually be
title={% filter force_escape %}&quot;{{ villa.name }}&quot;{% endfilter %}

Sorry.
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[Federico Capoano]

Hey sorry guys, i couldn't find this post anymore!

Thanks for the answers but i've found the resolution to my problem in
the documentation, i just forgot in the beginning where it says about

{% autoescape off %}

This is the tag to use to prevent the template system from converting

&quot;

in

"

Example:

<a href="#" title="I want &quot;this words to be appear in a
javascript tooltip and be quoted&quot;" class="tooltip">Test</a>

Becomes

<a href="#" title="I want "this words to be appear in a javascript
tooltip and be quoted"" class="tooltip">Test</a>

Causing serious problems on some browsers, cos the html is not valid.

While

{% autoescape off %}<a href="#" title="I want &quot;this words to be
appear in a javascript tooltip and be quoted&quot;"
class="tooltip">Test</a>{% endautoescape %}

will output correctly

<a href="#" title="I want &quot;this words to be appear in a
javascript tooltip and be quoted&quot;" class="tooltip">Test</a>.

Didn't try force_escape, but that sounds the opposite of what I want
to do..

Thanks.

PS: Django is great, no doubt the best framework I ever used.

On Feb 25, 3:35 pm, Alex Robbins <alexander.j.robb...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Oops, it would actually be
> title={% filter force_escape %}&quot;{{ villa.name }}&quot;{% endfilter %}
>
> Sorry.
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