escape problem in django templates

Question

Let's say that I have this string:

s = '<p>Hello!</p>'

When I pass this variable to a template, I want it to be rendered as raw html. Looking at the docs I see that I can either use the safe filter:

{{s|safe}}

or disable autoescape:

{%autoescape off}
{{s}}
{%endautoescape%}

or inside the python code declare it safe:

from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
s = mark_safe(s)

None of these options are working for me. Whatever I do, the string is displayed as:

<p>Hello!</p>

I must be missing something, just couldn't figure out what. Is there some security setting somewhere that disallows escaping?

EDIT: Bizarre, the problem seems to be gone after I have restarted the computer.

Solution 1

You pretty much covered it, those are indeed all the ways to disable autoescaping.

Are you sure the value you are talking about is actually s = '<p>Hello!</p>'?

My hunch is that you have additional escaping somewhere in that string...

Solution 2

I think you should write as follows

{{s|escape|safe}}

it is ok for me

Comments

[shanyu]

I have even tried this hello string. Actually I have the same issue with all the strings I pass to the templates or send as an e-mail.

[Mr. BeatMasta]

Thanks, you saved my life and hours of digging through google

[datalifenyc]

Interestingly, the documentation suggests that you put escape after safe, the variable will print as is. However, that is not the behavior I am seeing. {{ var|safe|escape }} renders the html. {{ var|escape|safe }} renders the variable text as-is.