How to output a plaintext for each loop with Jade view engine - express

Question

I'm trying to render out a plaintext string for emailing using the Jade view engine. I'm having trouble getting the right syntax for a plaintext output using a for each loop. Works fine with regular HTML, just not the plain text version:
| Bill to:
| #{customer.active_card.name}
|
- each lineitem in invoice.lines
= lineitem.description
Outputs
Bill to:
Freddy Mac
<p>Line item 1 description</p><p>Line item 2 description</p>
I can't figure out how to format the lineitem.description line so that I get a simple plaintext output so that it would look like this:
Bill to:
Freddy Mac
Line item 1 description
Line item 2 description
Any suggestions on how to tackle this ridiculously obscure edge case for Jade?
Many thanks!

Answer 1

Are you sure the <p> tag isn't really in the lineitem.description variable value itself? I tried your example and didn't get an unexpected <p> tag.
Second note that if you want plain text, you probably don't want jade's default HTML escaping, so use != instead of =.
For what it's worth, jade is really heavily focused on HTML specifically and using it for plain text is probably going to be annoying. Have you considered an alternate templating language like underscore templates?