I have copied the body of this github issue get feedback on this suggestion: https://github.com/yesodweb/yesod/issues/1298 The ToWidget typeclass could be more helpful than it currently is. Notably, there are sensible instances for Text, lazy Text, and text Builder that are not provided. I think that one objection to introducing such classes is that there is a piece of syntax in the shakespeare quasiquoter ^{..} that calls ToWidget on its argument. Adding more instances would allow the end user to feed text into this construct, which might be undesirable. I don't use the quasiquoter for templating, so the downside of it doesn't bother me. The reason I would like these instances is because there are a number of situations where I have to call `toWidget . toHtml` in my code that could be abbreviated to toWidget if these instances were provided. If this change is at odds with the goals of the TH templating, then I wouldn't want to mess that up for people, but if not, I would find these instances useful. I would appreciate any feedback, even if it's just in the form of a +1 or -1 response without any further explanation. -Andrew Martin