Jinja 2 - Django Form : rendering encodes HTML

Question

I was testing Jinja2 in a Django project and have a strange output. When I render the form, some characters are HTML encoded (< > etc.)

In the template :

{{ form.as_p() }}

It renders to the browser :

<p><label for="id_username">Utilisateur:</label> <input autocomplete="off" id="id_username" type="text" name="username" maxlength="100" /></p> <p><label for="id_password">Mot de passe:</label> <input autocomplete="off" type="password" name="password" id="id_password" /></p>

Looking at sources :

<p><label for="id_username">Utilisateur:</label> <input autocomplete="off" id="id_username" type="text" name="username" maxlength="100" /></p>
<p><label for="id_password">Mot de passe:</label> <input autocomplete="off" type="password" name="password" id="id_password" /></p>

Does anyone know this problem ?

Answer 1

Jinja2 tries to be safe by HTML-escaping the data. So you have to use |safe filter.

Though I haven't used Django with Jinja2, I believe this should work:

{{ form.as_p()|safe }}