In Django, How do I get escaped html in HttpResponse?

Question

The following code in one of my views returns unescaped html string which cannot be parsed in frontend since it is an Ajax request.

return render_to_response         


        

Answer 1

Lakshman Prasad's answer is technically correct, but a bit cumbersome. A better way to escape text would be (as suggested in a comment by miku above):

from django.utils.html import escape
return HttpResponse(escape(some_string))