How do I render text containing html with j2html java to html lib

Question

Been using j2html to create html from Java, working well but I don't understand how to use when I want something like this

<p>The fox ran over the <b>Bridge</b> in the forest</p>

If I do

import static j2html.TagCreator.*;

    public class HtmlTest
    {
         public static void main(String[] args)
         {
            System.out.println(p("The fox ran over the " + b(" the bridge") + "in the forest"));
         }

    }

I get

<p>The fox ran over the &lt;b&gt;the bridge&lt;/b&gt; in the forest</p>

i.e it treats bold as just text.

Note simply doing

import static j2html.TagCreator.*;

public class HtmlTest
{
     public static void main(String[] args)
     {
        System.out.println(p(b("the bridge")));
     }

}

does render properly giving

<p><b>the bridge</b></p>

Answer 1

I've never used j2html, but looking at the example, if I'm not wrong, I guess the syntax should be:

p("The fox ran over the ", b(" the bridge"), "in the forest")

Sorry my company environment doesn't allow me to download Eclipse etc to test.. .

Update: Above was wrong. But I've found a way - although it is rather complex:

p("The fox ran over the ").with((DomContent)b("the bridge")).withText(" in the forest")

Output:

<p>The fox ran over the <b>the bridge</b> in the forest</p>

(DomContent) can be removed but I retained for clarify. I guess the logic is that if anything added as text would be escaped, so the only way to make it work is to add the DomContent or ContainerTag instead.

Update 2: "Better" way found!

p(new Text("The fox ran over the "), b("the bridge"), new Text(" in the forest"))

or with a "helper"

import static j2html.TagCreator.*;
import j2html.tags.Text;

public class Test {

    private static Text $(String str) {
        return new Text(str);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(p($("The fox ran over the "), b("the bridge"), $(" in the forest")));
    }

}