How do I input HTML into the help text of a Django form field?

Question

I tried to generate help text for a Choice Field in my Django form with

i_agree = forms.CharField(label="", help_text="Initial to affirm that you agree to the <a href='/contract.pdf'>contract</a>.", required=True, max_length="4") 

However, the raw HTML is rendered as output in the help text. How do I input HTML into the help text of a Django form field?

Answer 1

You can use mark_safe in the model to indicate the html is safe and it should be interpreted as such:

from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe  i_agree = forms.CharField(label="", help_text=mark_safe("Initial to affirm that you agree to the <a href='/contract.pdf'>contract</a>."), required=True, max_length="4") 

Answer 2

You can alternatively mark it as safe in the template if you loop through the form yourself:

{% for f in form %}     {{f.label}}{{f}}{{f.help_text|safe}}     {%endfor%} 

That's a very simple example of doing so in the template. You would need to do more than that to make it look nice.