Does django automatically handle auto-escaping & context aware?

Question

As now I am developing website using django web framework of python.

I have very concerned with XSS & security of website.

I have read some references related XSS & prevent them using escaping , encoding etc..

so my question is does Django autoescape every input data & handle XSS attacks automatically or explicitly do we need to implement code to prevent XSS attack ?

How can we prevent all kinds of XSS attacks in Django ?

Answer 1

I think auto-escaping is enabled in Django by default:

https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/AutoEscaping

Unless you are using custom template tags, you have to explicitly mark tags as "safe" (or by using "autoescape off") to not auto-escape them: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/templates/builtins/#std:templatefilter-safe