I want to return html in a flask route

Question

Instead of using send_static_file, I want to use something like html('<h1>content</h1>'), sort of like jsonify.

@app.route('/incorrect_pass')
def incorrect_pass():
    return html('Incorrect password. <a href="/">Go back?</a>')

Is what I want to do.

just do `return 'Incorrect password. Go back?'`. HTML is the default — Hamms, Nov 15 '17 at 02:02

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 15 '17 at 02:02

5

Never mind. Should've checked. Flask returns strings as html, so the html() isn't necessary above.

answered Nov 15 '17 at 02:02

Yeah - Only difference with my answer is you can modify the head (so stylesheet etc) – alexisdevarennes Nov 15 '17 at 02:04

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 15 '17 at 02:03

Why not just:

def html(content):  # Also allows you to set your own <head></head> etc
   return '<html><head>custom head stuff here</head><body>' + content + '</body></html>'

@app.route('/incorrect_pass')
def incorrect_pass():
    return html('Incorrect password. <a href="/">Go back?</a>')
    # OR return  'Incorrect password. <a href="/">Go back?</a>

I want to return html in a flask route

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