Can't add HTML to a panel body

[blonkm]

I would like to add html to the body of a panel, but it gets encoded (escaped?) Now I reverted to a regular html bootstrap panel, but I really like the short syntax of bootstrapper. Is there a way to add some html and not have it encoded?

[blonkm]

I went back to regular blade syntax, and made a layout for my info panel. Just so everyone knows what I mean by extra html here is my infopanel layout:

<div class='panel panel-default'>
    <div class='panel-heading'>
        <h3 class='panel-title'>{{ $title }}</h3>
    </div>
    <div class='panel-body'>
        {{ $body }}
        {!! HTML::decode(link_to_route($route, '<i class="fa fa-info fa-lg" data-toggle="tooltip" title="show details"></i>', [$id], ['class' => 'btn-sm'])) !!}
    </div>
</div>

[PatrickRose]

We're not escaping anything on our end - it's probably Laravel escaping it for you.