Printing out HTML that doesn't get converted to

[Alex]

I'm working on my first Django project and I can't seem to get
information printed out as I would like it. I'm trying to print out
quotes to a page with the newlines turned into HTML <br> tags (similar
to PHP's nl2br function). So far I've been able to do this using the
__str__ function for the Quote model, but it escapes the tags into
html entities that I see the tags in my browser instead of the line
breaks. I'm using the development version of Django.

Here's what my __str__ function looks like:

return self.quote.replace('\n', '<br />')

And I'm just printing them out with a generic view that looks like
this:

{% for quote in object_list %}
<div class="quote">{{ quote }}
<div class="caption" align="right">
{% for a in quote.authors.all %}
&mdash;{{ a }}<br />
{% endfor %}
</div>
</div>
{% endfor %}

I'd appreciate any suggestions. I'm rather new to Python, so I
appreciate all the help I can get :)

--Alex

[jonknee]

On May 15, 6:17 pm, Alex <got...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on my first Django project and I can't seem to get
> information printed out as I would like it. I'm trying to print out
> quotes to a page with the newlines turned into HTML <br> tags (similar
> to PHP's nl2br function).

You're looking for linebreaks, a filter in Django templates:

http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/#linebreaks

[Alex]

Wow, that was incredibly simple. Thanks for the help! I have a strong
feeling I'm not going back to PHP...

--Alex

[Adi J. Sieker]

Alex wrote:
> I'm working on my first Django project and I can't seem to get
> information printed out as I would like it. I'm trying to print out
> quotes to a page with the newlines turned into HTML <br> tags (similar
> to PHP's nl2br function). So far I've been able to do this using the
> __str__ function for the Quote model, but it escapes the tags into
> html entities that I see the tags in my browser instead of the line
> breaks. I'm using the development version of Django.
>
> Here's what my __str__ function looks like:
>
> return self.quote.replace('\n', '<br />')
>
> And I'm just printing them out with a generic view that looks like
> this:
>
> {% for quote in object_list %}
> <div class="quote">{{ quote }}

You need to run your HTML through the safe filter.
Django auto escapes HTML.
so the above would be {{ quote|safe}}

see
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/#automatic-html-escaping

adi

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[Gabriel]

Alex <gotfef <at> gmail.com> writes:

>
>
> I'm working on my first Django project and I can't seem to get
> information printed out as I would like it. I'm trying to print out
> quotes to a page with the newlines turned into HTML <br> tags (similar
> to PHP's nl2br function). So far I've been able to do this using the
> __str__ function for the Quote model, but it escapes the tags into
> html entities that I see the tags in my browser instead of the line
> breaks. I'm using the development version of Django.
>

Hi Alex

AFAIK the Django dev version automatically escapes output unless you mark it
safe. Check the docs for more info.

[Tomás Garzón Hervás]

I think, you use the {% autoescape off %} text to escape {% endautoescape %}
Search more information of autoescape en django documentation
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On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Tomás Garzón Hervás
<t.ga...@iactive.es> wrote:
> I think, you use the {% autoescape off %} text to escape {% endautoescape %}
> Search more information of autoescape en django documentation

Turning autoescaping on and off for large sections of a template is a
sort of sledgehammer approach. For specific variables, as the case
seems to be here, the "safe" filter is much more appropriate and
fine-grained.

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