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textilize

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textilize(text) public

Returns the text with all the Textile codes turned into HTML tags.

You can learn more about Textile’s syntax at its website. This method is only available if RedCloth is available.

Examples

  textilize("*This is Textile!*  Rejoice!")
  # => "<p><strong>This is Textile!</strong>  Rejoice!</p>"

  textilize("I _love_ ROR(Ruby on Rails)!")
  # => "<p>I <em>love</em> <acronym title="Ruby on Rails">ROR</acronym>!</p>"

  textilize("h2. Textile makes markup -easy- simple!")
  # => "<h2>Textile makes markup <del>easy</del> simple!</h2>"

  textilize("Visit the Rails website "here":http://www.rubyonrails.org/.)
  # => "<p>Visit the Rails website <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/">here</a>.</p>"

Show source

# File actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb, line 250
        def textilize(text)
          if text.blank?
            ""
          else
            textilized = RedCloth.new(text, [ :hard_breaks ])
            textilized.hard_breaks = true if textilized.respond_to?(:hard_breaks=)
            textilized.to_html
          end
        end

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