jinja2: html escape variables
Question
how do I html-escape dangerous unsanitized input in jinja2?
Can I do it inside the template or must it be done in python code?
I have a variable that may contain da<ngero>u&s chars. How do I escape it in jinja2
Solution
e.g.
{{ user.username|e }}
Pipe it through the |e
filter
Jinija: Template Designer Documentation -> Builtin Filters: Escape
OTHER TIPS
You could also tell the environment to autoescape everything:
e = Environment(loader=fileloader, autoescape=True)
note: in jinja1 this is auto_escape
If you want to escape html in your programme, you can do it like this(example):
>>> import jinja2
>>> jinja2.__version__
'2.6'
>>> a
'<script>alert("yy")</script>'
>>> jinja2.escape(a)
Markup(u'<script>alert("yy")</script>')
>>> str(jinja2.escape(a))
'<script>alert("yy")</script>'
Flask has a built in tojson
filter:
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