Re: preventing template from converting html entities

[Daniel Roseman]

On Feb 24, 2:36 pm, Federico Capoano <nemesis.des...@libero.it> wrote:
> Hello to all,
>
> simple question:
>
> I have the following HTML in a template:
> <a href="#" title="More details on &quot;{{ villa.name }}&quot;
> class="tooltip">
>
> But it gets rendered this way:
> <a href="#" title="More details on "{{ villa.name }}" class="tooltip">
>
> That is, the &quot; entity is converted to the respective character,
> ". Very nice, but i'd need &quot;
>
> Is there a filter or something i can use to tell the Django Template
> System to render &quot; ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Federico

If I've understood you correctly, it's not the templating system that
is converting it, but the browser. When a browser sees &quot; it will
print ".

To prevent this, you'll need to double-escape it - ie replace the &
with the encoded version, so you have &amp;quot;
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