This is poor man’s Builder for the rare cases where you need to programmatically make tags but can’t use Builder.

Methods
Included Modules
Public Instance methods
content_tag(name, content, options = {})

Examples:

  • content_tag("p", "Hello world!") => <p>Hello world!</p>
  • content_tag("div", content_tag("p", "Hello world!"), "class" => "strong") => <div class="strong"><p>Hello world!</p></div>

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    # File vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/tag_helper.rb, line 21
21:       def content_tag(name, content, options = {})
22:         "<#{name}#{tag_options(options)}>#{content}</#{name}>"
23:       end
tag(name, options = {}, open = false)

Examples:

  • tag("br") => <br />
  • tag("input", { "type" => "text"}) => <input type="text" />

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    # File vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/tag_helper.rb, line 13
13:       def tag(name, options = {}, open = false)
14:         "<#{name}#{tag_options(options)}" + (open ? ">" : " />")
15:       end