express.js ejs not rendering my html

Question

I'm using Express.js with EJS to render the response from a database query as an html unordered list. I'm also using json2html . I'm not getting any errors but my list item elements are not getting rendered as HTML. What am I doing wrong?

The page renders in my browser like this -

My Express router handler -

var $stmt = squel.select().from('GrpPractice').field('*').toString();

router.get('/', handler1);

function handler1(req, res) {
    db.all($stmt, function(err, rows) {
        var transform = {'tag':'li', 'html':'${Organization legal name}'};
        var html    = json2html.transform(rows, transform);
        res.render('index', { title: 'Group Practices', html });    
        //  res.send(rows);
        });
}

And my EJS template -

  <body>
    <h1><%= title %></h1>
    <p>Welcome to <%= title %></p>
    <ul>
        <%= html %> 
    </ul>
  </body>

My data appears well formed -

[{"Organization legal name":"23RD FAMILY MED LLC","Group Practice PAC ID":"3375715477","Number of Group Practice members":5,"First Name":"CHERL","Last Name":"MUES","Credential":"","Primary specialty":"NURSE PRACTITIONER"},{"Organization legal name":"23RD FAMILY MED LLC","Group Practice PAC ID":"3375715477","Number of Group Practice members":5,"First Name":"PAUL","Last Name":"GLOWACKI","Credential":"MD","Primary specialty":"FAMILY PRACTICE"},{"Organization legal name":"23RD FAMILY MED LLC","Group Practice PAC ID":"3375715477","Number of Group Practice members":5,"First Name":"MONTY","Last Name":"SELLON","Credential":"","Primary specialty":"FAMILY PRACTICE"},{"Organization legal name":"23RD FAMILY MED LLC","Group Practice PAC ID":"3375715477","Number of Group Practice members":5,"First Name":"MILO","Last Name":"ANDERSON","Credential":"","Primary specialty":"FAMILY PRACTICE"},{"Organization legal name":"23RD FAMILY MED LLC","Group Practice PAC ID":"3375715477","Number of Group Practice members":5,"First Name":"ANDREW","Last Name":"OPP","Credential":"","Primary specialty":"FAMILY PRACTICE"},{"Organization legal name":"3-D OPTICAL","Group Practice PAC ID":"1951361732","Number of Group Practice members":4,"First Name":"KRISTEN","Last Name":"KOSIR","Credential":"OD","Primary specialty":"OPTOMETRY"},{"Organization legal name":"3-D OPTICAL","Group Practice PAC ID":"1951361732","Number of Group Practice members":4,"First Name":"NIROPA","Last Name":"PRASAD","Credential":"","Primary specialty":"OPTOMETRY"},{"Organization legal name":"3-D OPTICAL","Group Practice PAC ID":"1951361732","Number of Group Practice members":4,"First Name":"ROBERT","Last Name":"MCCAMY","Credential":"OD","Primary specialty":"OPTOMETRY"},{"Organization legal name":"3-D OPTICAL","Group Practice PAC ID":"1951361732","Number of Group Practice members":4,"First Name":"DARREL","Last Name":"CRISSLER","Credential":"","Primary specialty":"OPTOMETRY"},{"Organization legal name":"5MD CONVENIENT CARE LLC","Group Practice PAC ID":"2567643026","Number of Group Practice members":4,"First Name":"JULIE","Last Name":"HATCH","Credential":"","Primary specialty":"NURSE PRACTITIONER"}]

If I log to console it looks like valid html

<li>23RD FAMILY MED LLC</li><li>23RD FAMILY MED LLC</li><li>23RD FAMILY MED LLC</li><li>23RD FAMILY MED LLC</li><li>23RD FAMILY MED LLC</li><li>3-D OPTICAL</li><li>3-D OPTICAL</li><li>3-D OPTICAL</li><li>3-D OPTICAL</li><li>5MD CONVENIENT CARE LLC</li>

If I view page source in the browser (thank you Tomasz Jakub Rup), not so valid...

 <body>
    <h1>Group Practices</h1>
    <p>Welcome to Group Practices</p>
    <ul>
        &lt;li&gt;23RD FAMILY MED LLC&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;23RD FAMILY MED LLC&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;23RD FAMILY MED LLC&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;23RD FAMILY MED LLC&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;23RD FAMILY MED LLC&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;3-D OPTICAL&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;3-D OPTICAL&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;3-D OPTICAL&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;3-D OPTICAL&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;5MD CONVENIENT CARE LLC&lt;/li&gt; 
    </ul>
  </body>

Can anyone identify what I'm doing wrong? It appears as if my browser is interpreting this as a text string, rather than markup.

Answer 1

Replace <%= html %> with <%- html %>

ejs has less popular convention:

<%= produce escaped value

<%- produce unescaped value

lodash.template has an inverse convention (more popular):

<%- produce escaped value

<%= produce unescaped value

express.js ejs not rendering my html

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express.js ejs not rendering my html

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