GWT: Putting raw HTML inside a Label

Question

Is there a way to put raw HTML inside of a Label widget with GWT? The constructor and setText() methods automatically escape the text for HTML (so < appears as <, etc).

What I need is something like:

String matched = "two";
List<String> values = Arrays.asList("one", "two", "three");
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (String v : values){
  if (v.equals(matched)){
    sb.append("<b>" + v + "<b>");
  } else {
    sb.append(v);
  }
  sb.append(", ");
}
Label label = new Label();
label.setRawText(sb.toString());
//div contains the following HTML: "one, <b>two</b>, three, "

I want to output a comma-separated list of Strings, but I want one of those Strings to be bolded. Thanks.

Answer 1

Here's example to put a space in a widget, e.g. Label:

public void setTextNbsp( final Widget w ) { 
    w.getElement().setInnerHTML( " " );
}

Other HTML entities could be used as well. Take care with this not to open security holes. SafeHtml, etc. might need consideration if doing something more dynamic.

Answer 2

Use the HTML class (Or more likely: The InlineHTML class instead of the Label class. InlineHTML works like label, except that you can give it html.

And just a security warning: if part of the input to your InlineHTML object is input by the user, remember to strip html out of that part, so users can't insert their own scripts into your code.