Sendgrid-nodejs: & character escaped to & on dynamic template subjects

Created on 17 Sep 2018 · 5Comments · Source: sendgrid/sendgrid-nodejs

Issue Summary

When using dyamic templates and substitutions to set the e-mail subject, the character & is escaped to & which makes the subject of the e-mail not show company / product names correctly.

EX: The subject is of the message received is Thanks for buying at C&A instead of the expected: Thanks for buying at C&A.

Steps to Reproduce

Create a new dynamic template and set the subject to {{subject}}
Send the e-mail informing a subject containing the & character:

const sgMail = require("@sendgrid/mail");

const templateId = "XXXXXXXX";
const apiKey =  "XXXXXXXXXX";

sgMail.setApiKey(apiKey);
const msg = {
  templateId,
  to: "[email protected]",
  from: "[email protected]",
  dynamic_template_data: {
    subject: "Escape & work"
  }
};
sgMail.send(msg);

Check your e-mail client for the message with subject Escape & work

Technical details:

sendgrid-nodejs Version: 6.3.1
Node.js Version: 6.10.3

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Source

rafaelrpinto

Most helpful comment

Hello @rafaelrpinto

Looks like what you need to do is use a triple bracket on your subject so that handlebars does not HTML encode the content. So instead of using {{subject}} use {{{subject}}}. We have an example of this in our docs here and is talked about in the handlebars documentation here under HTML Escaping.

kylearoberts on 17 Sep 2018

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Hello @rafaelrpinto

kylearoberts on 17 Sep 2018

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@kylearoberts

Yep, that solves my problem.

Thanks for the quick response.

Rafael

rafaelrpinto on 17 Sep 2018

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@kylearoberts

Yep, that solves my problem.

Thanks for the quick response.

Rafael

Please show how your msg looks like (code example) after you added {{{}}} ?

maxirby on 29 Aug 2019

@maxirby

The code is the same, what changed is the subject definition on the template where I set to: {{{subject}}} instead of {{subject}}

rafaelrpinto on 29 Aug 2019

Thanks

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@maxirby https://github.com/maxirby

The code is the same, what changed is the subject definition on the
template where I set to: {{{subject}}} instead of {{subject}}

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