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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 3, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-javascript-css-code-ouput-in-textarea-best-ways/184472 "2010-03-03T03:34:56Z")\
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**Author:**  [@smarter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smarter)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-javascript-css-code-ouput-in-textarea-best-ways/184472/1 "2010-03-03T03:34:56Z")
Hello:
What would be the best way to Output Code in TextArea for a UI
component?
The Rails App View is pure HTML and JavaScript.
1.render in text for controller action and the text is the code string.
The \< and \> etc can be passed as is in this mode.
2.Read a HTML Template File (containing JS and CSS references) in Public
directory(?) that needs to be substitute some variables that were
inputted in a form by the user.
3.Create HTML on Ruby Side with some XML Builder instead of Reading a
File.
And then pass that String to code.
Please advise.
Thank you.
ps. Was posted on Ruby forum by mistake. Sorry about that. Moved it to
Ruby on Rails forum.
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**Author:**  [@smarter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smarter)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-javascript-css-code-ouput-in-textarea-best-ways/184472/2 "2010-03-03T17:35:08Z")
Smart RoR wrote:
Its probably the builder template that works best here I guess to
generate HTML code here.
Is there a way to define for example to use Nokigiri instead of default
Builder class?