How to escape liquid template tags?

Question

This sounds very easy, however I couldn't find it anywhere in the docs. How can I write {% this %} in a liquid template, without it being processed by the engine?

Answer 1

For future searchers, there is a way to escape without plugins, use the code below:

{{ "{% this " }}%}

and for tags, to escape {{ this }} use:

{{ "{{ this " }}}}

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There is also a jekyll plugin for this which makes it a whole lot easier: https://gist.github.com/1020852

Raw tag for jekyll. Keeps liquid from parsing text betweeen {% raw %} and {% endraw %}

Reference

Answer 2

it is possible to disable liquid processing engine using the raw tag:

{% raw  %}
{% this %}
{% endraw %}

will display

{% this %}

Answer 3

BTW:

If you want to display {{ "{% this " }}%}in Jekyll, you can code like this:

{{ "{{ " }}"{{ "{% this" }} " }}{{ "}}%}

To escape {{ "{{ this " }}}}use:

{{ "{{ " }}"{{ "{{ this" }} " }}{{ "}}}}

Answer 4

You can escape liquid tags in Jekyll posts using {% raw %} {% endraw %} i.e

{% raw %}
  {% for post in site.posts %}
     {{ post.content }}
  {% endfor %}

{% endraw %}

will produce

  {% for post in site.posts %}
     {{ post.content }}
  {% endfor %}

Answer 5

There is another option: to use HTML special characters codes for replacing the curly braces with its matching codes:

• replace each { with {
• replace each } with }

For more details about this solution see: http://www.tikalk.com/devops/curly_brances_workaround/

Answer 6

I found a omnipotent way to display any text with curly braces. You can assign plain text to a variable, and display it.

{% assign var = "{{ sth }}" %}
{{ var }}

Answer 7

As mentioned here also, plain {% raw %} and {% endraw %} are only the second best solution since those are shown if you look up the Markdown on normal github.com.

The best way is to put {% raw %} and {% endraw %} in HTML comments:

<!-- {% raw %} -->
something with curlky brackets like { this } and { that }
<!-- {% endraw %} -->

Due to the HTML comments it is seen by Github as a comment. In Github pages the raw tags will prevent the parsing of the curly brackets in between the tags.