Nested HTML Tags in Rails

Question

I had a question, re: creating nested html tags in Rails, since I am just learning rails.

Basically, I am trying to refactor some code that looks like this:

<a id="myid" href="/mylink">MainLinkText<span>Subtext</span></a>

However, when I use the contact_tag inside a link_to, I can't get it to display the MainLinkText. My code looks like this:

link_to content_tag(:span, "Subtext"), mylink_path, :id => "myid"

But I don't know how to get the "MainLinkText" in there. Is there a clean way of doing this?

Thanks in advance

odiszapc · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-15 01:59:32Z

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link_to "MainLinkText #{content_tag(:span, "Subtext")}".html_safe, mylink_path, :id => "myid"

answered Jun 15, 2012 at 1:59

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Hawkeye001 Over a year ago

Thanks @odiszapc, that worked like a charm! I had tried the interpolation part before I posted my question, but I wasn't doing it right, since the results I got didn't match what I was hoping for (or what your answer provides).

odiszapc Over a year ago

Ok, but one more thing - be carefull with .html_safe, it's not good idea to use this method anywhere...

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