How to pass raw html to Play framework view?

Question

I'm trying to pass a simple URL to a view within a play framework app, however when passed as a string, the & in the url is changed to & which causes the URL to not work.

If I change the argument to Html, i.e @(url: Srting) to @(url: Html), then I get an error when I try to pass the url as string to view.render() method.

How can I convert the url into Html and pass it as that?

Answer 1

To prevent the default escaping that happens for dynamic content on views you need to wrap the String with @Html(String) function:

View:

@(url: String) <div class="myLink">    Go to: @Html(url) <br>    not to: @url </div> 

Controller:

public static Result displayLink(){    return ok(view.render("<a href='http://stackoverflow.com/'>Stack Overflow</a>")); } 

See The template engine page on the documentation for more info (specifically the "Escaping" section at the very bottom).

Answer 2

If you want to render HTML content instead of displaying it as raw text, return the content .as("text/html"). Example:

WS.url("http://www.stackoverflow.com").get().map(resp => Ok(resp.body).as("text/html"))