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
--
Adi J. Sieker mobile: +49 - 178 - 88 5 88 13
Freelance developer skype: adijsieker
SAP-Consultant web: http://www.sieker.info/profile
openbc: https://www.openbc.com/hp/AdiJoerg_Sieker/
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Django users" group.
To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
