# Displaying html from variable

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-html-from-variable/124471>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 29, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-html-from-variable/124471 "2007-12-29T00:22:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![spokra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@spokra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spokra)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-html-from-variable/124471/1 "2007-12-29T00:22:20Z")

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how do i stop rails from escaping the html and pass it directly to the  
browser?

so the browser renders the html instead of displaying the actual html  
code.

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**Author:** ![spokra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@spokra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spokra)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-html-from-variable/124471/2 "2007-12-29T00:27:01Z")

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On Dec 28, 2007, at 5:21 PM, spokra wrote:

> how do i stop rails from escaping the html and pass it directly to the  
> browser?
> 
> so the browser renders the html instead of displaying the actual html  
> code.

Are you using the function h?

Phillip

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**Author:** ![spokra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@spokra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spokra)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-html-from-variable/124471/3 "2007-12-29T00:31:41Z")

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oops yes i was… thanks for point that out!!