# Markaby Problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/markaby-problem/123419>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 17, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/markaby-problem/123419 "2007-12-17T15:16:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sealedsun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sealedsun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sealedsun)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/markaby-problem/123419/1 "2007-12-17T15:16:05Z")

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Hey!

I’d like to render a unnumbered list using the markaby gem.

this list needs to hold links.

I’ve tried the following:

markaby.ul :id =\>‘mainnavigation’ do

items.each do |item|

```
  li a :id=> item

```

end

end

But it renders:

- \<a id="item1"\>\</a\>
- \<a id="item2"\>\</a\>
- \<a id="item3"\>\</a\>

all the link tags have a wrong encoding.

How do i fix that?

thx

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**Author:** ![sealedsun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sealedsun](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sealedsun)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/markaby-problem/123419/2 "2007-12-17T16:25:17Z")

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Hm that’s odd. I think you need to do this:

markaby.ul :id =\>‘mainnavigation’ do

items.each do |item|

```
 li { a :id=> item }

```

end

end

Not sure if that will work, but I think it will. 🙂

–Jeremy

On Dec 17, 2007 9:21 AM, Christian K.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> items.each do |item|  
> id=“item2”\>\</a\>
> 
> -

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