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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 8, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-output-text-containing-html-markup-without-having-the-browser-render-the-html/134184 "2008-04-08T18:03:49Z")\
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**Author:**  [@eggman2001](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eggman2001)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-output-text-containing-html-markup-without-having-the-browser-render-the-html/134184/1 "2008-04-08T18:03:49Z")
I have an object attribute that constantly gets html inserted into it.
This becomes problematic when I want to output that attribute to the
browser. What I’d like to do is have the \< and \> converted to \< and
\>. Is there a snippet or plugin I can use to do this?
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**Author:**  [@eggman2001](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eggman2001)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-output-text-containing-html-markup-without-having-the-browser-render-the-html/134184/2 "2008-04-08T18:19:42Z")
> I have an object attribute that constantly gets html inserted into it.
> This becomes problematic when I want to output that attribute to the
> browser. What I’d like to do is have the \< and \> converted to \< and
> \>. Is there a snippet or plugin I can use to do this?
Assuming your attribute is say @html\_string…
\<%= h @html\_string %\>
-philip
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**Author:**  [@eggman2001](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eggman2001)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-output-text-containing-html-markup-without-having-the-browser-render-the-html/134184/3 "2008-04-08T18:19:42Z")
You mean like the view helper h(), as in \<%=h my\_attr %\>?
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**Author:**  [@eggman2001](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eggman2001)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-output-text-containing-html-markup-without-having-the-browser-render-the-html/134184/4 "2008-04-08T19:21:27Z")
Exactly. Thank you.