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Marin
Marin

Reputation: 53

EJS file not rendering

I am having the problem witj .ejs files. The synthax just doesn`t seem to work for some reason:

 <!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
     
    SomeText
    <br>
        <%- body  %>
    <br>
    
</body>
</html>

I am running a small Node.js application and I set up EJS as a view engine: app.set('view engine', 'ejs')

When I hover over the <%- and %>, it says: 'Special characters must be escaped : [ > ].(spec-char-escape)'

I have installed extension called EJS Language support and the have installed ejs package: "dependencies": { "ejs": "^3.1.8" },

How to get around this error?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 688

Answers (1)

Marin
Marin

Reputation: 53

I found the solution. I opened the setting.json file and inserted this into:

{
    "files.associations": {
        "*.ejs": "html"
    },
    "emmet.includeLanguages": {
        "ejs": "html"
    },
    "htmlhint.options": {
        "spec-char-escape": false,
        "doctype-first": false
    },
    "html.validate.scripts": false,
}

Now the Visual Studio recognizes the EJS file and the code can run.

Upvotes: 1

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