Golang GAE - HTML template that does not insert links to a web page

Question

I am using Google Go on Google App Engine. I save the string description in a structure in a datastore , for example:

 type Foo struct{ Bar string }

This description includes html tags, for example:

 <a href="/">Bar</a>

I want the html template include this description in the html file so that it is parsed as html. For instance:

 <html><head><title>Title</title></head> <body>{{.Bar}}</body></html>

for analysis:

 <html><head><title>Title</title></head> <body><a href="/">Bar</a></body></html>

but instead, I get something like this:

 <html><head><title>Title</title></head> <body>&lt;a href=&#34;/&#34;&gt;Bar&#39;s&lt;/a&gt;</body></html>

How can I make template correctly parse string into html link?

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Thepiachu Nov 03 '12 at 22:25

1 answer

Kyle finley · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-03T22:32:03+0000

Package "http/template" automatically deletes all lines. To get around this, you must make a value of type template.HTML . For instance.

 import "html/template" type Foo struct { Bar template.HTML }

And then in your code do something like:

 Foo.Bar = template.HTML(barString)