Template::Plugin::HTML - Plugin to create HTML elements
[% USE HTML %]
[% HTML.escape("if (a < b && c > d) ..." %]
[% HTML.element(table => { border => 1, cellpadding => 2 }) %]
[% HTML.attributes(border => 1, cellpadding => 2) %]
The HTML plugin is a very basic plugin, implementing a few useful
methods for generating HTML.
Returns the source text with any HTML reserved characters such as
<, >, etc., correctly escaped to their entity equivalents.
Returns the elements of the hash array passed by reference correctly
formatted (e.g. values quoted and correctly escaped) as attributes for
an HTML element.
This provides a way to incrementally add attributes to the object.
The values passed in are stored in the object. Calling
element with just a tag or attributes without an parameters
will used the saved attributes.
USE tag = HTML;
tag.add_attributes( { class => 'navbar' } );
tag.add_attributes( { id => 'foo' } );
tag.add_attributes( { class => 'active' } );
tag.element( 'li' ); # <li class="navbar active" id="foo">
This method has two aliases: add_attribute() and add().
This will replace an attribute value instead of add to existing.
USE tag = HTML;
tag.add_attributes( { class => 'navbar' } );
tag.add_attributes( { id => 'foo' } );
tag.replace_attributes( { class => 'active' } );
tag.element( 'li' ); # <li class="active" id="foo">
This method has two aliases: replace_attribute() and replace().
Clears any saved attributes
Generates an HTML element of the specified type and with the attributes
provided as an optional hash array reference as the second argument or
as named arguments.
[% HTML.element(table => { border => 1, cellpadding => 2 }) %]
[% HTML.element('table', border=1, cellpadding=2) %]
[% HTML.element(table => attribs) %]
The HTML plugin accepts a sorted option as a constructor argument
which, when set to any true value, causes the attributes generated by
the attributes() method (either directly or via element()) to be
returned in sorted order. Order of attributes isn't important in
HTML, but this is provided mainly for the purposes of debugging where
it is useful to have attributes generated in a deterministic order
rather than whatever order the hash happened to feel like returning
the keys in.
[% USE HTML(sorted=1) %]
[% HTML.element( foo => { charlie => 1, bravo => 2, alpha => 3 } ) %]
generates:
<foo alpha="3" bravo="2" charlie="1">
Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org> http://wardley.org/
Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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