Confluence Velocity Templates: WithHtml suffix in variable

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Hi

I’ve recently discovered that in Confluence Apps Templates, variables with WithHtml doesn’t get escaped when rendered.

Like a template like this, content in the errormsg is properly encoded if there is any HTML like content in it.

<p>$errormsg</p>

And if the variable has a suffix ‘WithHtml’ like this:

<p>$errormsgWithHtml</p>

Then any HTML in the variable is rendered 1:1 into the template.

I couldn’t find any documentation on this. Is this documentation somewhere? Or is this a Velocity built in construct?

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Hi Roman,

I recently came across this as well. Seems to be a feature which is only documented for older jira version but also apply for confluence => JIRA 6.0 - HTML escaping for velocity templates

Regards,
Christian

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