nodejs, jade escape markup

Question

I have an Express app using the default Jade view engine. When I try to render HTML as-is in a

 element, it gets rendered as actual DOM elements inst         


        

Answer 1

Actually the OP asks for the escaping, not the unescaping. Which I ran into today.

Let assume, that you have varName variable with FooBar content.

Then this template will use the escaped value:

#foobar= varName

so it becomes:

<b>FooBar</b>

If you use the bang operator:

#foobar!= varName

jade won't escape it, so it becomes:

FooBar