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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 14, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-html-markup-to-a-blog-post-content-field/188618 "2010-05-14T20:52:01Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Norm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Norm)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-html-markup-to-a-blog-post-content-field/188618/1 "2010-05-14T20:52:01Z")
Hello all,
I have spent the better part of a day getting my “hello world!”
application, aka. blog, done. I am so loving Rails. One thing that I
am stumped on is how to enable html in my post.
I have two fields for a Post, title and content. in the content field
if I enter a url or enter an anchor tag, the link does not show up as
a link. I don’t have a need for a WYSWIG editor, as I do not care for
them, I would much rather enter raw html markup and since it is only
me who is going to be doing the posting I feel confident that it is
safe.
Thanks,
Norm
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**Author:**  [@Norm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Norm)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-html-markup-to-a-blog-post-content-field/188618/2 "2010-05-14T21:43:32Z")
On 14 May 2010 00:15, Norm [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> me who is going to be doing the posting I feel confident that it is
> safe.
Are you using \<%= h @your\_text\_string %\>? If so remove the h as this
is escaping the html. However think very carefully about this. Don’t
do it for a real application that others will have access to.
Colin