How to render string literal with html tags in django?

Question

I've wrote a custom view to parse markdown files using regex and I'm passing content as a string literal to the template

context = "Django is a web framework written using <a href='https://www.python.org/'>Python</a>"

return render(request, "blog/post.html", {"context": context})

And in template:

<p>{{ context }}</p>

But the engine renders content as a plain text. How to make links to be links and paragraphs to be paragraphs?

You need to mark it as safe because you trust the markup in it; {{ context|safe }}. Alternatively you can use mark_safe() in the view to pass a safe string in the context; docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/utils/… — markwalker_
– markwalker_, Commented Dec 26, 2021 at 0:14
It works. Thanks. But I have several other variables that work without safe filter. Why do these variables work without being marked as safe? — Alex
– Alex, Commented Dec 26, 2021 at 9:27
I'd assume the other variables don't contain anything that django considers potentially dangerous. — markwalker_
– markwalker_, Commented Dec 27, 2021 at 23:47

Ahtisham · Accepted Answer · 2021-12-26 04:02:35Z

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Just add safe template tag like @markwalker_ said in comments it will turn off autoescape of html tags.

 <p>{{ context|safe }}</p>

answered Dec 26, 2021 at 4:02

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