EJS: <%= versus <%-

Question

I\'m using EJS with a Node.js web server I\'m building. I see many EJS examples that sometimes use <%= when outputting HTML or strings, while other examples

Answer 1

The version of EJS you're likely using in Node is not the same as the version you see on Google code; in the Node version, <%= escapes the HTML going into the buffer, while <%- does not. ^source