Rails button_to with multiple line text

Question

I'm writing a Rails application and I have button that I create as follows:

<%= button_to t('.upload_html'), ... %>

where the ... stand for the other options. So the button should have the text pointed to by .upload_html and it does. Now I want that text to have two lines. In the YAML file I had

upload_html: "turn off"

and now I want

upload_html: "turn<br>off"

with a line break inside the button label text. But this does not work. It displays the string literally including the HTML tag without linebreaking. What can I do to force the line break?

Thank you!! Best, Patrick

I've just discovered that if I change button_to to link_to, it works. So this must be a problem with button_to somehow ... — Patrick Bangert, Jul 10 '12 at 11:24
this is because your text is in value attribute. you cant insert multiline content in it. you can use link_to and style your link as button — jbmeerkat, Jul 10 '12 at 22:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '12 at 10:36

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did you try "turn<br>off".html_safe ?

answered Jul 10 '12 at 10:36

Erez Rabih

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I just tried that. If I add this to the YAML file, I get a parser error. If I add it to the HTML file, nothing changes ... – Patrick Bangert Jul 10 '12 at 11:03
how about `<%= button_to raw(t('.upload_html')), ... %>`? – niiru Jul 10 '12 at 13:51

Rails button_to with multiple line text

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