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user2307087
user2307087

Reputation: 423

Django not rendering html tags properly

I have an error message in forms.py to pass it to a template, but the template is rendering as a string not a html tag.

In forms.py

    message = ("The email address is already taken. Please <a href='#'> log in. </a>"

    def clean_email(self):
        email = self.cleaned_data['email']
        try:
            User.objects.get_by_natural_key(email)
        except User.DoesNotExist:
              return email
        raise forms.ValidationError(message)

In a template

    <span class="error">{{form.email.errors|safe}}</span>

But this is rendering as 'The email address is already taken. Please <a href='#'>log in.</a>' not ' The email address is already taken. Please log in.'

I tried the autoescape tag, {% autoescape off%}{{form.email.errors|safe}}{% endautoescape%}, but this doesn't work either.

What am I missing? Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1067

Answers (1)

Emma
Emma

Reputation: 1081

You should try to:

raise forms.ValidationError(mark_safe(message))

See the mark_safe documentation for more information

For building up fragments of HTML, you should normally be using django.utils.html.format_html() instead

Upvotes: 3

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