Using HTML in A Form

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I am trying to create a form that accepts HTML. So that when I type <br> or use divs it understands and populated my content block accordingly. Can anyone point me in the right direction for this?

Here's the form I am using if that helps:

 <%= simple_form_for(@daily) do |f| %>
  <%= f.error_notification %>

  <div class="form-inputs">
    <%= f.input :title %>
    <%= f.input :content %>
  </div>

  <div class="form-actions">
  <%= f.button :submit %>
  </div>
 <% end %>

Sorry about that. This is the form I fill out for a blog post on a webpage. Instead of typing text into the content input - I'd like to paste some HTML. So that way when I press submit, the page where I view the blog post is formatted accordingly. However now it just shows the html as text. It isn't processing it — Harrison Young
– Harrison Young, Commented Jul 18, 2015 at 19:26

Ryan K · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-18 19:38:30Z

1

Replace <%= f.input :content %> with <%= f.text_area :content %>. That doesn't do much but make a multi-line input area (looks better). However, when you display the data on your webpage (i.e. after you submit the form), you can put something like this:

<p>@daily.content.html_safe</p>

answered Jul 18, 2015 at 19:38

Ryan K

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Harrison Young Over a year ago

Perfect. Thanks Ryan!

Ryan K Over a year ago

No problem. Now, make sure that this form isn't public facing. Because people could input some <script> tags and (IIRC) that JavaScript would run and can be dangerous.

coorasse Over a year ago

Why you don't have a textarea also using simple form (input instead of textarea)? Is your field a text (not a string) in the database?

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