How to render HTML inside Slim templates

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I'm trying to render a link preceded by an icon. I'm using Slim templating engine along with Bootstrap CSS. Usually you could do this the following way: ``` My Profile ``` According to Slim's documentation, we can use `==` to render without escaping HTML. So, translating this to Slim, I tried the following variations: ``` li== link_to " My Profile", current_user li== link_to "#{''.html_safe} My Profile", current_user li= link_to "#{''.html_safe} My Profile", current_user ``` All variations rendered ` My Profile` escaping the `i` tag. How can I stop Slim or Rails from escaping html? (Rails 3.2 with Slim 1.2.1)

Accepted Answer

You want to disable HTML escaping for the `link_to` argument, not the entire `link_to` result. You're pretty close with your `html_safe` but your string interpolation is eating your "safe for HTML" flag. This should work better: ``` li= link_to ' My Profile'.html_safe, current_user ```

How to render HTML inside Slim templates

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