Embedded HTML in link_to body in Rails

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Ryan picture Ryan · Mar 15, 2011 · Viewed 46.9k times · Source

What is the best way to go about getting embedded HTML in the body of a link generated with the link_to method?

I basically want the following:

<a href="##">This is a <strong>link</strong></a>

I have been trying to go about this as suggested in Rails and the <span> tag but with no luck. My code looks like the following:

item_helper.rb

def picture_filter
    #...Some other code up here
    text = "Show items with " + content_tag(:strong, 'pictures')
    link_to text, {:pics => true}, :class => 'highlight'
end

item_view.html.erb

 #...
 <%=raw picture_filter %>
 #...

Answer

Valdis picture Valdis · Mar 15, 2011

Try it this way

<%= link_to(raw("a <strong>strong</strong> link"),{:pics => true},{ :class => 'highlight'})  %>

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