Render a variable as HTML in EJS

Question

I am using the Forms library for Node.js (Forms), which will render a form for me on the backend as so:

var signup_form = forms.create({
    username: fields         


        

Answer 1

October 2017 update

The new ejs (v2, v2.5.7) development is happening here: https://github.com/mde/ejs The old ejs (v0.5.x, 0.8.5, v1.0.0) is available here https://github.com/tj/ejs

Now with ejs you can do even more. You can use:

• Escaped output with <%= %> (escape function configurable)
• Unescaped raw output with <%- %>
• Newline-trim mode ('newline slurping') with -%> ending tag
• Whitespace-trim mode (slurp all whitespace) for control flow with <%_ _%>
• Control flow with <% %>

So, in your case it is going to be <%- variable %> where variable is something like

var variable = "text here 
 and some more text here";

I hope this helps someone.