How to pass raw html to Play framework view?

Question

I\'m trying to pass a simple URL to a view within a play framework app, however when passed as a string, the & in the url is changed to & w

Answer 1

If you want to render HTML content instead of displaying it as raw text, return the content .as("text/html"). Example:

WS.url("http://www.stackoverflow.com").get().map(resp => Ok(resp.body).as("text/html"))

Answer 2

To prevent the default escaping that happens for dynamic content on views you need to wrap the String with @Html(String) function:

View:

@(url: String)
<div class="myLink">
   Go to: @Html(url) <br>
   not to: @url
</div>

Controller:

public static Result displayLink(){
   return ok(view.render("<a href='http://stackoverflow.com/'>Stack Overflow</a>"));
}

See The template engine page on the documentation for more info (specifically the "Escaping" section at the very bottom).