autoesc

Synopsis

<#autoesc>
  ...
</#autoesc>

Camel case name variant: autoEsc

Description

Turns on auto-escaping in the nested section. Auto-escaping is usually enabled by default if the current output format has auto-escaping by default, so you rarely need this. Note that to escape just a single ${expression} where auto-escaping is disabled you should use ${expression?esc} instead.

This directive only has effect on the section that is literally (as in the text editor) inside the nested bock, not on the parts that are called/included from there.

Example:

<#ftl output_format="XML" auto_esc=false>
${"&"}
<#autoesc>
  ${"&"}
  ...
  ${"&"}
</#autoesc>
${"&"}

&
  &
  ...
  &
&

autoesc can't be used where the current output format is a non-markup output format (and hence can't do escaping). Doing so is a parse-time error.

autoesc can also be used nested into noautoesc directive to re-enable auto-escaping.

autoesc can be used on places where auto-escaping is already enabled, such as even inside another autoesc block. Doing so is redundant but allowed.