Smarty displays raw HTML

Question

I am passing my HTML string to the $content variable and trying to display it, in the result I see raw HTML tags instead of the string markup.

Controller:

$content = "<strong>Test markup</strong>";

index.tpl:

{$content} - displays just raw variable content without markup: <strong>Test markup</strong> INSTEAD of the Test markup.

When I type manually the above variable content in the index.tpl then it works just fine so it seems to be some variable-related issue.

What have I tried:

{content|nofilter} - to be sure its not caused by any of the Smarty's variable filters.

Could someone help me to localize the problem?

possible duplicate of [show a smarty variable with html content](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16449583/show-a-smarty-variable-with-html-content) — Sergiu Paraschiv, Jan 20 '14 at 19:45
@Sergiu Parashiv You're right. Its strange I couldnt find that before, thanks. I have flagged my question as a duplicate. — Lucas, Jan 20 '14 at 19:48
Well, it _is_ counter-intuitive. It should just work. As a side note: why _are_ you using Smarty? — Sergiu Paraschiv, Jan 20 '14 at 19:49
@SergiuParaschiv Mostly because its a fast and flexible template engine + http://www.smarty.net/why_use :) — Lucas, Jan 20 '14 at 20:41
First I would check if the property `$smartyInstance->escape_html` is set to false. Have you really tried `{content|nofilter}` ? It looks syntactical wrong for me. I'm only familiar with this syntax `{$content nofilter}` — sofl, Jan 23 '14 at 17:38

Marcin Barylski · Answer 1 · 2014-01-21T08:00:51.160

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Please try:

{$content|unescape:'html'}

edited Jan 21 '14 at 08:00

answered Jan 20 '14 at 19:51

Marcin Barylski

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