safe Filter

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The safe filter indicates that the value is known to be safe and therefore does not need to be escaped. For example, given the following:

blurb = '<p>You are <em>pretty</em> smart!</p>'

This would return unescaped HTML to the client:

{{ blurb|safe }}

Result

<p>You are <em>pretty</em> smart!</p>

The client (e.g., a browser) would then interpret was returned, so your users would see this HTML in the browser:

You are pretty smart!

Commentary

In most cases, we recommend using this filter instead of the autoescape tag, because it is specific to a variable and less likely to result in unintended (and potentially dangerous) output. However, you must be careful with the safe filter as well.

Consider the following:

Variable

blurb_dangerous = '<script>alert("Danger!");</script>'

Template

{{ blurb_dangerous|safe }}

Result

<script>alert("Danger!");</script>

See the commentary on the autoescape tag for more details.


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This page last updated on Oct. 30, 2022, 1:21 p.m. EST