How to escape imported partial in Nunjucks

Question

I would like to escape the HTML code from an imported file in Nunjucks.

{% include "item.html" %}

The file "item.html" contains following code:

<strong>bold text</strong>

I would like the parent file (which includes item.html) to have the following output:

<strong>bold text</strong>

I tried surrounding the include with an escape filter:

{% filter escape %}
  {% include "item.html" %}
{% endfilter %}

However in that case the file doesn't get included correctly. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I tested your snippet on Gulp + gulp-nunjucks-render@2.0.0, it does produce the desired effect:

{% filter escape %}
{% include "partials/test.html"  %}
{% endfilter %}

Output: