Spaces in html select options

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I want to make something like this: ``` ``` with `` But the rendered result is without multiple spaces. If I use ` ` instead of "``", I get ` ` as string, not as non-breaking space. How can I fix that?

Accepted Answer

The problem here is that Twig will automatically escape HTML entities (calling `htmlspecialchars`, effectively). Since you want to send a literal string of HTML, you don't want the automatic escaping to be done.

Now, you haven't provided your Twig code, so I can't say exactly how you should do this. But my guess is that you're including it with something like this:

```
{{ table.column }}
```

You need to use the `raw` filter:

```
{{ table.column | raw }}
```

You do need to be careful here, though. If the values in the column can come from a user, you're opening yourself up to an XSS attack.

Spaces in html select options

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