Thanks, the `CAT` solution was rather neat. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: >> response.subtitle = T('Aggregator for')+A('Company', >> _href='http://company.org/') > > > In the views, all strings are automatically escaped (unless wrapped in > XML()). web2py HTML helpers are not escaped. However, the above concatenates > a T() object with a helper -- the result of that concatenation is actually a > string (i.e., the concatenation causes the A() helper to be serialized to a > string before being added to "Aggregator for"). If you want to combine > multiple items and still keep them wrapped in a helper so they are not > serialized to a string, but you don't want a surrounding HTML tag, you can > use the CAT() helper: > > response.title = CAT(T('Aggregator for'), A('Company', > _href='http://company.org/')) > > Below, you can see that this results in a helper object, not a string, so it > won't be escaped when inserted in the view: > >>>> CAT(T('Aggregator for'), A('Company', _href='http://company.org/')) > <gluon.html.CAT object at 0x3356050> > > And here's what you get when the view serializes the CAT() helper (notice no > surrounding tag): > >>>> CAT(T('Aggregator for'), A('Company', >>>> _href='http://company.org/')).xml() > 'Aggregator for<a href="http://company.org/";>Company</a>' > > Anthony > > -- > > >
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