How to _not_ strip HTML comments from a HTML template in gin gonic

**Rina0** · Jul 18 '23, 10:30 AM

I'm using Gin Gonic with a HTML template file.

My template file contains (multi line) HTML comments of the kind . I want that the HTML content is preserved in the output which is returned by

Code:

c.HTML(http.StatusOK, "static/templates/mytemplate.html", gin.H{
    "name": "World",
})

where c is a *gin.Context.

Question: How to configure the template engine or c.HTML to not strip the HTML comments from the template?

More Detailed

Code:

/static/templates/mytemplate.html:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="de">
<body>
<!--
these lines are missing in the output
-->
Hello World
</body>
</html>

My Handler:

Code:

func NewRouter() *gin.Engine {
    router := gin.Default()
    // ... load templates from file system ...
    router.GET("/foo", fooHandler)
    return router
}
func fooHandler(c *gin.Context) {
    c.HTML(http.StatusOK, "static/templates/mytemplate.html", gin.H{
        "name": "World",
    })
}

Edit I tried to add the comments as constants:

Code:

{{"<!-- my comment goes here -->"}}

But then the tags are escaped as

Code:

&lt;!-- foo --&gt;