mark_safe does not work in Django

[milescatlett]

Hi,

the Django function mark_safe, nor the template | safe work with components. I am not able to save html in the database and display it in a component. Is there any possibility to add support for this, or is there a work around?

[Archmonger]

Just transferred this discussion to the reactpy-django repo.

Admittedly I haven't tried using Django template filters with our template tag. Are you trying to use them like this?

{% component "example.path" "<div> Hello World </div>" | safe %}

[milescatlett]

Yes, it doesn't work for me that way. It also doesn't work if you wrap the value in mark_safe(). https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/utils/#module-django.utils.safestring

[Archmonger]

Alright I'll check this later tonight. What kind of output do you get if you use the safe filter?

Is it the HTML content with escape characters?

[milescatlett]

Yep. That's right.

[Archmonger]

I might need more information on how to reproduce your issue.

I've confirmed in #219 that HTML string objects and template tag strings are passed as literals, so they don't need any usage of safe or mark_safe.

[Archmonger]

I'm going to assume your html strings are already escaped prior to entering the template and/or ReactPy.

If you want to unescape them, you can use html.unescape