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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 29, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-tags-in-database/70479 "2006-09-29T15:36:22Z")\
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**Author:**  [@thekernel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thekernel)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-tags-in-database/70479/1 "2006-09-29T15:36:22Z")
I put html tags in a longtext field in my database, but when I grab it
for the page it uses it as regualr text. How can I get the html tags
to be recognized?
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**Author:**  [@thekernel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thekernel)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-tags-in-database/70479/2 "2006-09-29T17:10:53Z")
On 9/29/06, Amos K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> I put html tags in a longtext field in my database, but when I grab it
> for the page it uses it as regualr text. How can I get the html tags
> to be recognized?
Can you show some specifc code please? There isn’t enough context
here for us to help you.
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**Author:**  [@thekernel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thekernel)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-tags-in-database/70479/3 "2006-09-29T17:14:54Z")
Amos K. wrote:
> I put html tags in a longtext field in my database, but when I grab it
> for the page it uses it as regualr text. How can I get the html tags
> to be recognized?
You are probably escaping “\<”, “\>” and “&”. Just don’t do that.
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**Author:**  [@thekernel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thekernel)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-tags-in-database/70479/4 "2006-09-29T17:18:55Z")
On 9/29/06, Gregory B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> On 9/29/06, Amos K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
>
> > I put html tags in a longtext field in my database, but when I grab it
> > for the page it uses it as regualr text. How can I get the html tags
> > to be recognized?
>
> Can you show some specifc code please? There isn’t enough context
> here for us to help you.
sure
| \<%= post.body %\> |
body may look like:
Hello, I’m a link!
I want the html to be interpreted, but it is showing up as text in my
browser so link is not a link.
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**Author:**  [@thekernel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thekernel)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-tags-in-database/70479/5 "2006-09-29T21:47:37Z")
I put html tags in a longtext field in my database, but when I grab it
for the page it uses it as regualr text. How can I get the html tags
to be recognized?
rhtml looks like:
| \<%= post.body %\> |
body may look like:
Hello, I’m a link!
output:
Hello, I’m a link!
I want the html to be interpreted, but it is showing up as text in my
browser so link is not a link.
Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this.
Thanks
Amos
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**Author:**  [@thekernel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thekernel)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/html-tags-in-database/70479/6 "2006-09-29T22:09:40Z")
On 9/29/06, Amos K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> Hello, I’m a link!
Look at the source code.
You might be actually getting \<