I've spent a couple of hours googling and rtfm-ing but can't seem to find
a clean way of doing this.
I have a legacy database with various fields containing known, safe html
text (e.g. `this & that` and things like apostrophes e.g. `John's
place`). I need to use a number of these fields as options in multiple
select boxes in a form.
Just using {{=XML(form)}} in the view doesn't work since it appears the
form is preprocessed and it escapes the & in & resulting in raw html
like `&` being output (which then displays to the user as &
instead of just the &.
In the controller I use:
form = SQLFORM.factory(
Field('regions', requires=IS_EMPTY_OR(IS_IN_DB(db,
db.regions.id, '%(region)s', orderby='sort_order', multiple=True))),
Is there a way to tell web2py that the contents of a field, coming from a
db, are safe prior to it rendering the form so that it does not escape it?
Thank you,
JC
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