Handlebars Template rendering template as text
I created a helper in Handlebars to help with logic, but my template parses the returned html as text rather than html.
I have a quiz results page that is rendered after the quiz is completed:
<script id="quiz-result" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
{{#each rounds}}
{{round_end_result}}
{{/each}}
<div class="clear"></div>
</script>
For each of the rounds, I use a helper to determine which template to render a round's result:
Handlebars.registerHelper("round_end_result", function() {
if (this.correct) {
var source = '';
if (this.guess == this.correct) {
console.log("correct guess");
var source = $("#round-end-correct").html();
} else {
var source = $("#round-end-wrong").html();
}
var template = Handlebars.compile(source);
var context = this;
var html = template(context);
console.log(html);
return html;
} else {
console.log("tie");
}
});
Here is a template that describes a correct round (let's take say it rendered the #round-end-correct template):
<script id="round-end-correct" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
<div></div>
</script>
Here is what gets rendered:
<div></div>
Not as HTML, but as text. How do I get it to actually render the HTML as HTML, rather than text?
Solution 1:
I assume that unescaping in Handlebars works the same as in vanilla Mustache.
In that case use triple mustaches to unescape html, i,e: {{{unescapedhtml}}}
, like:
<script id="quiz-result" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
{{#each rounds}}
{{{round_end_result}}}
{{/each}}
<div class="clear"></div>
for ref see: http://mustache.github.com/mustache.5.html
Solution 2:
Geert-Jan's answers is correct but just for reference you can also set the result to "safe" directly inside the helper (code from handlebars.js wiki)
Handlebars.registerHelper('foo', function(text, url) {
text = Handlebars.Utils.escapeExpression(text);
url = Handlebars.Utils.escapeExpression(url);
var result = '<a href="' + url + '">' + text + '</a>';
return new Handlebars.SafeString(result);
});
With that you can use regular double handlebars {{ }} and handlebars won't escape your expression.