Text and escaping

Text

Literal strings use the same syntax as Rust. Wrap them in double quotes, and use a backslash for escapes.

html! {
    "Oatmeal, are you crazy?"
}

Raw strings

If the string is long, or contains many special characters, then it may be worth using raw strings instead:

html! {
    pre {
        r#"
            Rocks, these are my rocks.
            Sediments make me sedimental.
            Smooth and round,
            Asleep in the ground.
            Shades of brown
            And gray.
        "#
    }
}

Escaping and `PreEscaped`

By default, HTML special characters are escaped automatically. Wrap the string in (PreEscaped()) to disable this escaping. (See the section on splices to learn more about how this works.)

use maud::PreEscaped;
html! {
    "<script>alert(\"XSS\")</script>"                // &lt;script&gt;...
    (PreEscaped("<script>alert(\"XSS\")</script>"))  // <script>...
}

The `DOCTYPE` constant

If you want to add a <!DOCTYPE html> declaration to your page, you may use the maud::DOCTYPE constant instead of writing it out by hand:

use maud::DOCTYPE;
html! {
    (DOCTYPE)  // <!DOCTYPE html>
}