Making user-made HTML templates safe

Question

I want to allow users to create tiny templates that I then render in Django with a predefined context. I am assuming the Django rendering is safe (I asked a question about t

Answer 1

"Use a markup language that produces safe HTML."

Clearly, the only sensible approach.

"The problem with this is that most markup languages are not very powerful layout-wise."

False.

"no way to center elements in ReST."

False.

Centering is a style -- a CSS feature -- not a markup feature.

1. The want to center is to assign an CSS Class to a piece of text. The .. class:: directive does this.

2. You can also define your own interpreted text role, if that's necessary for specifying an inline class on a piece of markup.