diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb
index bfad9f8d31..4c76e9642f 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ module ActionView
 
         options.reverse_merge!(:length => 30)
 
+        text = sanitize(text) unless text.html_safe? || options[:safe]
         text.truncate(options.delete(:length), options) if text
       end
 
@@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ module ActionView
         end
         options.reverse_merge!(:highlighter => '<strong class="highlight">\1</strong>')
 
+        text = sanitize(text) unless text.html_safe? || options[:safe]
         if text.blank? || phrases.blank?
           text
         else
@@ -244,13 +246,14 @@ module ActionView
       #
       def textilize(text, *options)
         options ||= [:hard_breaks]
+        text = sanitize(text) unless text.html_safe? || options.delete(:safe)
 
         if text.blank?
           ""
         else
           textilized = RedCloth.new(text, options)
           textilized.to_html
-        end
+        end.html_safe
       end
 
       # Returns the text with all the Textile codes turned into HTML tags,
@@ -271,8 +274,8 @@ module ActionView
       #
       #   textilize_without_paragraph("Visit the Rails website "here":http://www.rubyonrails.org/.)
       #   # => "Visit the Rails website <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/">here</a>."
-      def textilize_without_paragraph(text)
-        textiled = textilize(text)
+      def textilize_without_paragraph(text, *options)
+        textiled = textilize(text, options)
         if textiled[0..2] == "<p>" then textiled = textiled[3..-1] end
         if textiled[-4..-1] == "</p>" then textiled = textiled[0..-5] end
         return textiled
@@ -295,8 +298,9 @@ module ActionView
       #
       #   markdown('![The ROR logo](http://rubyonrails.com/images/rails.png "Ruby on Rails")')
       #   # => '<p><img src="http://rubyonrails.com/images/rails.png" alt="The ROR logo" title="Ruby on Rails" /></p>'
-      def markdown(text)
-        text.blank? ? "" : BlueCloth.new(text).to_html
+      def markdown(text, options = {})
+        text = sanitize(text) unless options[:safe]
+        (text.blank? ? "" : BlueCloth.new(text).to_html).html_safe
       end
 
       # Returns +text+ transformed into HTML using simple formatting rules.
@@ -320,14 +324,15 @@ module ActionView
       #
       #   simple_format("Look ma! A class!", :class => 'description')
       #   # => "<p class='description'>Look ma! A class!</p>"
-      def simple_format(text, html_options={})
+      def simple_format(text, html_options={}, options={})
+        text = '' if text.nil?
         start_tag = tag('p', html_options, true)
-        text = h(text)
+        text = sanitize(text) unless text.html_safe? || options[:safe]
         text.gsub!(/\r\n?/, "\n")                    # \r\n and \r -> \n
         text.gsub!(/\n\n+/, "</p>\n\n#{start_tag}")  # 2+ newline  -> paragraph
         text.gsub!(/([^\n]\n)(?=[^\n])/, '\1<br />') # 1 newline   -> br
         text.insert 0, start_tag
-        text.safe_concat("</p>")
+        text.html_safe.safe_concat("</p>")
       end
 
       # Turns all URLs and e-mail addresses into clickable links. The <tt>:link</tt> option
@@ -368,7 +373,7 @@ module ActionView
       #   # => "Welcome to my new blog at <a href=\"http://www.myblog.com/\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.myblog.com</a>.
       #         Please e-mail me at <a href=\"mailto:me@email.com\">me@email.com</a>."
       def auto_link(text, *args, &block)#link = :all, html = {}, &block)
-        return '' if text.blank?
+        return ''.html_safe if text.blank?
 
         options = args.size == 2 ? {} : args.extract_options! # this is necessary because the old auto_link API has a Hash as its last parameter
         unless args.empty?
@@ -378,9 +383,9 @@ module ActionView
         options.reverse_merge!(:link => :all, :html => {})
 
         case options[:link].to_sym
-          when :all                         then auto_link_email_addresses(auto_link_urls(text, options[:html], &block), options[:html], &block)
+          when :all                         then auto_link_email_addresses(auto_link_urls(text, options[:html], options, &block), options[:html], &block)
           when :email_addresses             then auto_link_email_addresses(text, options[:html], &block)
-          when :urls                        then auto_link_urls(text, options[:html], &block)
+          when :urls                        then auto_link_urls(text, options[:html], options, &block)
         end
       end
 
@@ -544,7 +549,7 @@ module ActionView
 
         # Turns all urls into clickable links.  If a block is given, each url
         # is yielded and the result is used as the link text.
-        def auto_link_urls(text, html_options = {})
+        def auto_link_urls(text, html_options = {}, options = {})
           link_attributes = html_options.stringify_keys
           text.gsub(AUTO_LINK_RE) do
             scheme, href = $1, $&
@@ -566,21 +571,22 @@ module ActionView
               link_text = block_given?? yield(href) : href
               href = 'http://' + href unless scheme
 
-              content_tag(:a, link_text, link_attributes.merge('href' => href)) + punctuation.reverse.join('')
+              content_tag(:a, link_text, link_attributes.merge('href' => href), !(options[:safe] || text.html_safe?)) + punctuation.reverse.join('')
             end
-          end
+          end.html_safe
         end
 
         # Turns all email addresses into clickable links.  If a block is given,
         # each email is yielded and the result is used as the link text.
-        def auto_link_email_addresses(text, html_options = {})
+        def auto_link_email_addresses(text, html_options = {}, options = {})
           text.gsub(AUTO_EMAIL_RE) do
             text = $&
 
             if auto_linked?($`, $')
-              text
+              text.html_safe
             else
               display_text = (block_given?) ? yield(text) : text
+              display_text = sanitize(display_text) unless options[:safe]
               mail_to text, display_text, html_options
             end
           end
diff --git a/actionpack/test/template/text_helper_test.rb b/actionpack/test/template/text_helper_test.rb
index bb808b77a5..9d7106b2e5 100644
--- a/actionpack/test/template/text_helper_test.rb
+++ b/actionpack/test/template/text_helper_test.rb
@@ -45,19 +45,42 @@ class TextHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase
     assert simple_format("<b> test with html tags </b>").html_safe?
   end
 
-  def test_simple_format_should_escape_unsafe_input
-    assert_equal "<p>&lt;b&gt; test with unsafe string &lt;/b&gt;</p>", simple_format("<b> test with unsafe string </b>")
+  def test_simple_format_should_sanitize_unsafe_input
+    assert_equal "<p><b> test with unsafe string </b></p>", simple_format("<b> test with unsafe string </b><script>code!</script>")
   end
 
-  def test_simple_format_should_not_escape_safe_input
+  def test_simple_format_should_not_sanitize_input_if_safe_option
+    assert_equal "<p><b> test with unsafe string </b><script>code!</script></p>", simple_format("<b> test with unsafe string </b><script>code!</script>", {}, :safe => true)
+  end
+
+  def test_simple_format_should_not_sanitize_safe_input
     assert_equal "<p><b> test with safe string </b></p>", simple_format("<b> test with safe string </b>".html_safe)
   end
 
+  def test_truncate_should_be_html_safe
+    assert truncate("Hello World!", :length => 12).html_safe?
+  end
+  
   def test_truncate
     assert_equal "Hello World!", truncate("Hello World!", :length => 12)
     assert_equal "Hello Wor...", truncate("Hello World!!", :length => 12)
   end
 
+  def test_truncate_should_sanitize_unsafe_input
+    assert_equal "Hello World!", truncate("Hello <script>code!</script>World!", :length => 12)
+    assert_equal "Hello Wor...", truncate("Hello <script>code!</script>World!!", :length => 12)
+  end
+
+  def test_truncate_should_not_sanitize_input_if_safe_option
+    assert_equal "Hello <sc...", truncate("Hello <script>code!</script>World!", :length => 12, :safe => true)
+    assert_equal "Hello <sc...", truncate("Hello <script>code!</script>World!!", :length => 12, :safe => true)
+  end
+
+  def test_truncate_should_not_sanitize_safe_input
+    assert_equal "Hello <sc...", truncate("Hello <script>code!</script>World!".html_safe, :length => 12)
+    assert_equal "Hello <sc...", truncate("Hello <script>code!</script>World!!".html_safe, :length => 12)
+  end
+
   def test_truncate_should_use_default_length_of_30
     str = "This is a string that will go longer then the default truncate length of 30"
     assert_equal str[0...27] + "...", truncate(str)
@@ -93,7 +116,11 @@ class TextHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase
     end
   end
 
-  def test_highlighter
+  def test_highlight_should_be_html_safe
+    assert highlight("This is a beautiful morning", "beautiful").html_safe?
+  end
+ 
+  def test_highlight
     assert_equal(
       "This is a <strong class=\"highlight\">beautiful</strong> morning",
       highlight("This is a beautiful morning", "beautiful")
@@ -117,6 +144,27 @@ class TextHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase
     assert_equal '   ', highlight('   ', 'blank text is returned verbatim')
   end
 
+  def test_highlight_should_sanitize_unsafe_input
+    assert_equal(
+      "This is a <strong class=\"highlight\">beautiful</strong> morning",
+      highlight("This is a beautiful morning<script>code!</script>", "beautiful")
+    )
+  end
+
+  def test_highlight_should_not_sanitize_input_if_safe_option
+    assert_equal(
+      "This is a <strong class=\"highlight\">beautiful</strong> morning<script>code!</script>",
+      highlight("This is a beautiful morning<script>code!</script>", "beautiful", :safe => true)
+    )
+  end
+
+  def test_highlight_should_not_sanitize_safe_input
+    assert_equal(
+      "This is a <strong class=\"highlight\">beautiful</strong> morning<script>code!</script>",
+      highlight("This is a beautiful morning<script>code!</script>".html_safe, "beautiful")
+    )
+  end
+
   def test_highlight_with_regexp
     assert_equal(
       "This is a <strong class=\"highlight\">beautiful!</strong> morning",
@@ -163,7 +211,7 @@ class TextHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase
       highlight("<p class=\"beautiful\">This is a beautiful morning, but also a beautiful day</p>", "beautiful")
     )
     assert_equal(
-      "<p>This is a <strong class=\"highlight\">beautiful</strong> <a href=\"http://example.com/beautiful\#top?what=beautiful%20morning&when=now+then\">morning</a>, but also a <strong class=\"highlight\">beautiful</strong> day</p>",
+      "<p>This is a <strong class=\"highlight\">beautiful</strong> <a href=\"http://example.com/beautiful\#top?what=beautiful%20morning&amp;when=now+then\">morning</a>, but also a <strong class=\"highlight\">beautiful</strong> day</p>",
       highlight("<p>This is a beautiful <a href=\"http://example.com/beautiful\#top?what=beautiful%20morning&when=now+then\">morning</a>, but also a beautiful day</p>", "beautiful")
     )
   end
@@ -286,7 +334,17 @@ class TextHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase
     %{<a href="#{CGI::escapeHTML href}">#{CGI::escapeHTML link_text}</a>}
   end
 
-  def test_auto_linking
+  def test_auto_link_should_be_html_safe
+    email_raw    = 'santiago@wyeworks.com'
+    link_raw     = 'http://www.rubyonrails.org'
+
+    assert auto_link(nil).html_safe?
+    assert auto_link('').html_safe?
+    assert auto_link("#{link_raw} #{link_raw} #{link_raw}").html_safe?
+    assert auto_link("hello #{email_raw}").html_safe?
+  end
+
+  def test_auto_link
     email_raw    = 'david@loudthinking.com'
     email_result = %{<a href="mailto:#{email_raw}">#{email_raw}</a>}
     link_raw     = 'http://www.rubyonrails.com'
@@ -378,6 +436,21 @@ class TextHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase
     assert_equal %(<p>#{link10_result} Link</p>), auto_link("<p>#{link10_raw} Link</p>")
   end
 
+  def test_auto_link_should_sanitize_unsafe_input
+    link_raw     = %{http://www.rubyonrails.com?id=1&num=2}
+    assert_equal %{<a href="http://www.rubyonrails.com?id=1&amp;num=2">http://www.rubyonrails.com?id=1&amp;num=2</a>}, auto_link(link_raw)
+  end
+
+  def test_auto_link_should_sanitize_unsafe_input
+    link_raw     = %{http://www.rubyonrails.com?id=1&num=2}
+    assert_equal %{<a href="http://www.rubyonrails.com?id=1&num=2">http://www.rubyonrails.com?id=1&num=2</a>}, auto_link(link_raw, :safe => true)
+  end
+
+  def test_auto_link_should_not_sanitize_safe_input
+    link_raw     = %{http://www.rubyonrails.com?id=1&num=2}
+    assert_equal %{<a href="http://www.rubyonrails.com?id=1&num=2">http://www.rubyonrails.com?id=1&num=2</a>}, auto_link(link_raw.html_safe)
+  end
+
   def test_auto_link_other_protocols
     ftp_raw = 'ftp://example.com/file.txt'
     assert_equal %(Download #{generate_result(ftp_raw)}), auto_link("Download #{ftp_raw}")
@@ -587,7 +660,12 @@ class TextHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase
     assert_equal(%w{Specialized Fuji Giant}, @cycles)
   end
 
+  # TODO test textilize_without_paragraph and markdown
   if defined? RedCloth
+    def test_textilize_should_be_html_safe
+      assert textilize("*This is Textile!*  Rejoice!").html_safe?
+    end
+
     def test_textilize
       assert_equal("<p><strong>This is Textile!</strong>  Rejoice!</p>", textilize("*This is Textile!*  Rejoice!"))
     end
@@ -600,6 +678,18 @@ class TextHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase
       assert_equal("<p>This is worded &lt;strong&gt;strongly&lt;/strong&gt;</p>", textilize("This is worded <strong>strongly</strong>", :filter_html))
     end
 
+    def test_textilize_should_sanitize_unsafe_input
+      assert_equal("<p>This is worded <strong>strongly</strong></p>", textilize("This is worded <strong>strongly</strong><script>code!</script>"))
+    end
+
+    def test_textilize_should_not_sanitize_input_if_safe_option
+      assert_equal("<p>This is worded <strong>strongly</strong><script>code!</script></p>", textilize("This is worded <strong>strongly</strong><script>code!</script>", :safe))
+    end
+
+    def test_textilize_should_not_sanitize_safe_input
+      assert_equal("<p>This is worded <strong>strongly</strong><script>code!</script></p>", textilize("This is worded <strong>strongly</strong><script>code!</script>".html_safe))
+    end
+
     def test_textilize_with_hard_breaks
       assert_equal("<p>This is one scary world.<br />\n True.</p>", textilize("This is one scary world.\n True."))
     end