ref: 5d2fceecafe182c6ddebc57475a4c1b2317e6216
dir: /docs/content/en/functions/safeHTML.md/
---
title: safeHTML
# linktitle:
description: Declares a provided string as a "safe" HTML document to avoid escaping by Go templates.
godocref: https://golang.org/src/html/template/content.go?s=1374:1385#L25
date: 2017-02-01
publishdate: 2017-02-01
lastmod: 2017-02-01
categories: [functions]
menu:
docs:
parent: "functions"
keywords: [strings]
signature: ["safeHTML INPUT"]
workson: []
hugoversion:
relatedfuncs: []
deprecated: false
---
It should not be used for HTML from a third-party, or HTML with unclosed tags or comments.
Given a site-wide [`config.toml`][config] with the following `copyright` value:
```
copyright = "© 2015 Jane Doe. <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\">Some rights reserved</a>."
```
`{{ .Site.Copyright | safeHTML }}` in a template would then output:
```
© 2015 Jane Doe. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Some rights reserved</a>.
```
However, without the `safeHTML` function, html/template assumes `.Site.Copyright` to be unsafe and therefore escapes all HTML tags and renders the whole string as plain text:
```
<p>© 2015 Jane Doe. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses by/4.0/">Some rights reserved</a>.</p>
```
[config]: /getting-started/configuration/