[FIXED] How to add <i> and <span> tag inside a tag in cakephp 3?

Issue

My html code is given below:

<a  href="/patients/index" class="m-menu__link ">
    <i class="m-menu__link-bullet m-menu__link-bullet--dot">
        <span></span>
    </i>
    <span class="m-menu__link-text">
        Add Medicines
    </span>
</a>

and i want to convert it by using HtmlHelper in cakephp 3.

Solution

You want to use the 'escape' => false parameter in the link() method. This stops Cake from escaping the markup:-

<?= $this->Html->link(
    '<i class="m-menu__link-bullet m-menu__link-bullet--dot"><span></span></i><span class="m-menu__link-text">' . h('Add Medicines') . '</span>', 
    '/patients/index', 
    [
        'escape' => false, 
        'class' => 'm-menu__link'
    ]
) ?>

It's important to remember to still escape any user generated content using h(). I've shown this in the example above by escaping 'Add Medicines', but if this is hardcoded you wouldn't need to wrap it in the h() method.

Answered By - drmonkeyninja