Raw Template Tag

[dcramer]

It would be great to see a template tag for handling raw code:

{% raw %}
{% this shouldnt get evaluated %}
{% endraw %}

[carolineschnapp]

This would be needed to use the official jQuery template plugin in Liquid templates: http://api.jquery.com/category/plugins/templates

That plugin uses double curly braces for all its tags, except for the alias ${ output } which is a short version for:

{{= output }}

Adding a “raw” tag may also solve the problem we currently have with Assistly. Assistly lets us use Liquid in replies to customers. That means that design supporters cannot share code snippets in a reply. Anything that uses double curly braces is 'parsed'. We have to create a gist every time we want to share a code snippet with our customers. We cannot use square brackets and ask them to make the substitution. Well, we can, but... that's so painful: “In the above code snippet you must change [[ to double { and ]] to double }.”

[carolineschnapp]

Just to be clear, the only place you can place a jQuery template is inside a .liquid template, hence the road block. A jQuery template looks like this:

 <script id="my-template"  type="text/x-jquery-tmpl">
   <li>
      <a href="${url}">
         <span class="title">${title}</span>
      </a>
   </li>
 </script>

It's a script tag, so it cannot be placed in a .js file.

As soon as you want to use logic in such template, you have to use the double curly braces notation: http://api.jquery.com/category/plugins/templates

I was thinking about modifying the plugin itself but it's hosted on a CDN and it is updated and improved constantly.

[phaer]

I'd love to see this feature. It would also help with mustache and other template languages beside jQuery.tmpl().

Because - according to "Liquid for Programmers" - Liquid parses all block tags, we'd have to patch liquid itself. A custom block tag itself can't help here.

[phaer]

Wrote a proof of concept which i'm using for my jekyll generated site: https://gist.github.com/1020852 . Should be trivial to include it in other projects.

[phaer]

Well, it seems like there is a little issue in this implementation: If you use {{ variable }} inside a html attribute it gets masked. For example:

<a href="#{{id}}">{{name}}</a>

becomes

<a href="#%7B%7Bid%7D%7D">Test</a>

I'll have a look into this during the next days.