In Django, How do I get escaped html in HttpResponse?

Question

The following code in one of my views returns unescaped html string which cannot be parsed in frontend since it is an Ajax request.

return render_to_response         


        

Answer 1

To return just plain HTML to the client from within your view, use django.http.HttpResponse

from django.http import HttpResponse

def view(request)
    # Do stuff here
    output = '''
    
        
            
        
    '''
    return HttpResponse(output)

To prevent the Django templating system from escaping HTML in a template, just use the |safe filter:

response = ""

# Meanwhile, in the template...

    {{response|safe}}