Before you begin

• Please make sure you're using the latest version of the templ CLI (go install github.com/a-h/templ/cmd/templ@latest), and have upgraded your project to use the latest version of the templ runtime (go get -u github.com/a-h/templ@latest)
  • I tried using the latest CLI and runtime version, and I'm seeing the same behavior.

Describe the bug

First off, I'm not sure if this is a bug. I would expect that a link's href attribute would require a templ.SafeURL to be consistent with an anchor tag, but it seems to require a string instead.

I'm using a couple functions to add a URL path prefix to templ templates, and I noticed that static assets in the head element referenced by link allow (actually require due to how it's generated) a string.

One function returns a string (intended for HTMX attributes), and another returns a templ.SafeURL. I'm using the first variant without issue in link hrefs.

To Reproduce

Add a link element to a template (rel icon or stylesheet is what I'm seeing), and pass a plain Go string in curly braces ({}). There doesn't seem to be any requirement for a templ.SafeURL.

This is how I've produced this.

Expected behavior

I'd expect consistent behavior between hrefs for different elements, but there could be a good reason for the current behavior that I don't know about.

Edit: Trimming down text for clarity and adding specific links.