Displaying HTML with Jelly in a UI page

[jdurden]

So, I went into this project thinking this was going to be pretty straight forward. And, maybe it is. But what I thought should work intuitively isn't working as I anticipated and the information I'm finding online isn't working.

What I'm trying to do is display some HTML (on a UI Page) which is stored in a variable. Example...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">
<g:evaluate>
var test = "<b>this is bold</b>";
</g:evaluate>

${test}
</j:jelly>

In case it's not clear, the desired outcome is to have a simple bold text "this is bold" display on the UI Page when visited. However, when you visit the page it looks like:

<b>this is bold</b>

Clearly the HTML is being encoded at some point in this whole thing and, despite searching forums and Google, I'm unsure how to fix it. Any ideas?


Thanks in advance!

[adiddigi]

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Thanks!

[ralvarez]

Without the need of an intermediate input, but almost the same.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<j:jelly trim="false" xmlns:j="jelly:core" xmlns:g="glide" xmlns:j2="null" xmlns:g2="null">
    <g:evaluate var="jvar_str">
        test = "<b>Bold</b>";
    </g:evaluate>
    <div>
        <script>
    document.write('${jvar_str}');
</script>
     </div>
</j:jelly>

[pu]

Stumbled across this thread when looking for a solution but have since found an easier way that works for me.

I'm doing a Glide query to get the data from an HTML field and need to output it as HTML to a UI page.

There is a ready made Jelly tag to do the escaping / decoding for you it seems:

<g2:no_escape>$[gr.myHTMLField.getDisplayValue()]</g2:no_escape>

[adiddigi]

Thanks Paul, this definitely is a better way of doing it.

Also, the reason why I had to show the solution the way I did, is because I had to explain why the code given doesn't work 🙂

[Jertay]

"no_escape" seems super ominous, but it worked for me, so thanks!