ruby - How to display HTML in jQuery autocomplete results in Rails -

i populating set of results jquery ui autocomplete in rails:

<%= text_field_tag('user', "", :placeholder => 'enter user...', class: "users",                    data: {autocomplete_source: user.order(:lastname, :firstname).map { |u| {:label => getlabel(u.firstname, u.lastname).html_safe, :id => u.id} }}) %> 

i trying display html in labels, instance bolding text, , display perhaps image in each row.

  def getlabel(firstname, lastname)    "<b>" + firstname + " " + lastname + "</b>"   end 

this renders plain text in results:

<b>john smith</b>  

what best way labels rendered html? appreciated.

edit:

  $('.users').autocomplete     source: $('.users').data('autocomplete-source')     select: (event, ui) ->       $( ".users" ).val( ui.item.value );       $( "#user_id" ).val( ui.item.id );       $( "#select_user" ).submit(); 

html:

<input class="users" data-autocomplete-source="[{&quot;label&quot;:&quot;\u003cb\u003ejohn smith\u003c/b\u003e&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:4}]" id="user" name="user" placeholder="enter user..." type="text" value="" /> 

unless declare string html-safe, escaped you. safety mechanism.

the straight-forward method employ html_safe on tags:

def get_label(firstname, lastname)   [ '<b>', h([ firstname, lastname ].join(' '))), '</b>' ].join('').html_safe end 

even better, can use helper methods construct tags you:

def get_label(firstname, lastname)   content_tag('b', [ firstname, lastname ].join(' ')).html_safe end 

the second approach better since you're not running risk of accidentally declaring name html_safe.