Grails: Rendering template from taglib as HTML

Question

I'm trying to render my template from taglib:

out << g.render(template: "/menu/sidebar")

This is what my sidebar template looks like:

<ul>
    <li>TEST1</li>
    <li>TEST2</li>
</ul>

When I inspect my page in browser, whole template code appears in apostrophes like this...

"<ul>
    <li>TEST1</li>
    <li>TEST2</li>
</ul>"

...and prints my html code just like a plain text. Any idea how to make it recognize the content as proper html code?

Edit: Taglib code:

class MenuTagLib {
    static defaultEncodeAs = 'html'
    def renderIfExists = { attrs,body->
        GrailsConventionGroovyPageLocator groovyPageLocator
        println attrs.template
        if(groovyPageLocator.findTemplateByPath(attrs.template))
        {
            g.render(template:attrs.template)
        }
        else{   


            out << g.render(template: "/menu/sidebar")
        }
    }
}

The way of calling it:

<g:renderIfExists template="/${params.controller}/sidebar" plugin="untitled1" />

AFAIK, `out << render(template: "/menu/sidebar")` should do it... — tim_yates, Aug 14 '13 at 11:53
Can you post your taglib code and the way you're calling it? — , Aug 14 '13 at 12:05

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 14 '13 at 12:14

25

If I had to guess, it would be that you have this in your class:

static defaultEncodeAs = 'html'

You should remove that line and try it again. That says that it should escape html characters.

answered Aug 14 '13 at 12:14

James Kleeh

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score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 05 '15 at 22:39

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Tag libraries default to encoding tag contents as HTML as of Grails 2.3. This can be disabled by adding

 static defaultEncodeAs = "raw"

This will let your tag lib output be raw html instead of as a string

answered Jun 05 '15 at 22:39

penguin

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 03 '15 at 17:40

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Try with:

static defaultEncodeAs = [taglib:'text']

answered Aug 03 '15 at 17:40

Eduardo Cuomo

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Please if you want to get more upvotes you have to explain your answer. Your answer might solve the problem but not give information about what was wrong and whay was wrong. – Raydel Miranda Aug 03 '15 at 21:22

Grails: Rendering template from taglib as HTML

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