HTML::Make - A flexible HTML generator
# Make a table. use HTML::Make; my $table = HTML::Make->new ('table'); # Can add elements as text $table->add_text ('<tr><th>Item<th>Cost'); my %items = ( compressor => 12800, heater => 'free', camera => 1080, ); for my $k (sort keys %items) { # Add an element using "push". The return value is the new element. my $tr = $table->push ('tr'); # Can add element to $tr using "push" $tr->push ('td', text => $k); # Can also make a new element then "push" it. my $td = HTML::Make->new ('td', text => $items{$k}, attr => {style => 'padding:1em'}); $tr->push ($td); } # Get the output print $table->text ();
produces output
<table> <tr><th>Item<th>Cost<tr> <td>camera</td> <td style="padding:1em">1080</td> </tr> <tr> <td>compressor</td> <td style="padding:1em">12800</td> </tr> <tr> <td>heater</td> <td style="padding:1em">free</td> </tr> </table>
(This example is included as synopsis.pl in the distribution.)
This documents HTML::Make version 0.09 corresponding to git commit 3ceb5f22317fbf23ef5403464ad9932440bb8b25 released on Fri Jan 6 09:08:21 2017 +0900.
HTML::Make is an HTML generator. It generates HTML fragments, such as HTML lists or tables, rather than complete HTML pages.
my $element = HTML::Make->new ('li');
Make a new HTML element of the specified type.
To add attributes to the element, use
my $element = HTML::Make->new ('li', attr => {class => 'biglist'});
To add text,
my $element = HTML::Make->new ('li', text => "White punks on dope");
Both attributes and text may be added:
my $element = HTML::Make->new ('li', attr => {id => 'ok'}, text => 'OK');
HTML::Make checks the element against a list of known HTML tags from "HTML::Valid::Tagset", and warns if the first argument is not on this list. To switch off this behaviour and allow arbitrary tags, use the nocheck option:
nocheck
use HTML::Make; my $freaky = HTML::Make->new ('freaky', nocheck => 1); $freaky->push ('franky', nocheck => 1, text => 'Visible man'); print $freaky->text ();
<freaky><franky>Visible man</franky> </freaky>
(This example is included as nocheck.pl in the distribution.)
$obj->add_attr (class => 'buggles');
Add attributes to $obj. The following adds a class "beano" to the "li" element:
$obj
use HTML::Make; my $obj = HTML::Make->new ('li'); $obj->add_attr (class => 'beano'); print $obj->text ();
<li class="beano"></li>
(This example is included as li-class-beano.pl in the distribution.)
This issues a warning of the form "Overwriting attribute 'class' for 'p'" if the object already contains an attribute of the specified type.
use HTML::Make; my $p = HTML::Make->new ('p', attr => {class => 'big'}); $p->add_attr (class => 'small');
Overwriting attribute 'class' for 'p' tag at /usr/home/ben/projects/html-make/examples/p-double-class.pl line 6.
(This example is included as p-double-class.pl in the distribution.)
This also issues a warning if the attribute is not valid for the tag, according to "tag_attr_ok" in HTML::Valid::Tagset. This is restricted to what is valid in HTML5.
$element->add_text ('buggles');
Add text to $element. For example,
$element
my $element = HTML::Make->new ('p'); $element->add_text ('peanuts'); print $element->text (); # <p>peanuts</p>
The text may contain HTML elements:
my $element = HTML::Make->new ('p'); $element->add_text ('peanuts <i>eggs</i>'); print $element->text (); # <p>peanuts <i>eggs</i></p>
The return value is the added text object.
my $child = $element->push ('tag');
Add child element of type <tag> to $element and return the result as a new HTML::Make object. For example,
HTML::Make
use utf8; use HTML::Make; my $table = HTML::Make->new ('table'); my $row = $table->push ('tr'); my $cell = $row->push ('td', text => 'Cell'); print $table->text ();
<table> <tr> <td>Cell</td> </tr> </table>
(This example is included as table.pl in the distribution.)
An object created with HTML::Make may also be pushed:
use utf8; use HTML::Make; my @colours = ( daidai => 0xEE7800, murasaki => 0x884898, kimidori => 0xB9C42F, kogecha => 0x6A4D32, uguisuiro => 0x838B0D, ); my $ul = HTML::Make->new ('ul'); while (@colours) { my $colour = shift @colours; my $rgb = shift @colours; # Here we make a new element and then push it into $ul, rather # than using the return value of $ul->push (). my $li = HTML::Make->new ( 'li', text => $colour, attr => { style => sprintf ("background: #%06X", $rgb), }); $ul->push ($li); } print $ul->text ();
<ul> <li style="background: #EE7800">daidai</li> <li style="background: #884898">murasaki</li> <li style="background: #B9C42F">kimidori</li> <li style="background: #6A4D32">kogecha</li> <li style="background: #838B0D">uguisuiro</li> </ul>
(This example is included as push-new.pl in the distribution.)
See also Make a list of colours with HTML::Make.
It's also possible to add all of the same arguments as "new", for example
$element->push ('a', attr => {href => 'http://www.example.org/'});
This warns if you add some types of elements to possibly inappropriate parent elements. For example if you add an <li> tag to a <tr> it reacts like this:
use HTML::Make; my $tr = HTML::Make->new ('tr'); $tr->push ('li');
Pushing non-table element <li> to a table row at /usr/home/ben/projects/html-make/examples/push-li-to-tr.pl line 6.
(This example is included as push-li-to-tr.pl in the distribution.)
my $tag = $obj->opening_tag ();
Returns the text value of the HTML tag opening, complete with attributes.
$element->text ();
This returns the element and its child elements as text.
my @elements = $obj->multiply ('li', \@contents);
Given an HTML tag type as the first argument, and an array reference as the second argument, this adds multiple child elements to $obj of type given by the first argument, with text contents given by \@contents.
\@contents
use HTML::Make; my $ol = HTML::Make->new ('ol'); $ol->multiply ('li', ['one', 'two', 'three']); print $ol->text ();
<ol> <li>one</li> <li>two</li> <li>three</li> </ol>
(This example is included as multiply.pl in the distribution.)
This script converts arbitrary JSON to HTML:
use utf8; use JSON::Parse 'parse_json'; use HTML::Make; my $json =<<EOF; {"words":[{"j_pron_only":"パイプ","word":"pipe"},{"word":"cutting","j_pron_only":"カティング"},{"word":"implement","j_pron_only":"インプリムント"}]} EOF my $p = parse_json ($json); my $html = json_to_html ($p); print $html->text (); exit; sub json_to_html { my ($input) = @_; my $element; if (ref $input eq 'ARRAY') { $element = HTML::Make->new ('ol'); for my $k (@$input) { my $li = $element->push ('li'); $li->push (json_to_html ($k)); } } elsif (ref $input eq 'HASH') { $element = HTML::Make->new ('table'); for my $k (sort keys %$input) { my $tr = $element->push ('tr'); $tr->push ('th', text => $k); my $td = $tr->push ('td'); $td->push (json_to_html ($input->{$k})); } } else { $element = HTML::Make->new ('span', text => $input); } return $element; }
<table> <tr> <th>words</th> <td><ol> <li><table> <tr> <th>j_pron_only</th> <td><span>パイプ</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <th>word</th> <td><span>pipe</span> </td> </tr> </table> </li> <li><table> <tr> <th>j_pron_only</th> <td><span>カティング</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <th>word</th> <td><span>cutting</span> </td> </tr> </table> </li> <li><table> <tr> <th>j_pron_only</th> <td><span>インプリムント</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <th>word</th> <td><span>implement</span> </td> </tr> </table> </li> </ol> </td> </tr> </table>
(This example is included as json-to-html.pl in the distribution.)
See also Convert JSON to HTML with JSON::Parse and HTML::Make.
This module assumes you want to make HTML5.
There is no way to control the whitespace in the output HTML.
There is no way to add HTML comments to the output except by adding them as text.
This module depends on the following Perl modules.
Carp is used to report errors.
HTML::Valid::Tagset is used to validate tags and tag/attribute pairs.
The CGI module contains HTML generation.
This project is on the SourceForge site, not CPAN.
Generate and manipulate HTML as native Perl data structures
An HTML generator via a tree of 'tag' objects
HTML-like templating language
This is similar to the HTML generation which is in CGI. Its last update, version 1.05, was in 2009, and it doesn't include HTML5 tags.
Output HTML described by a Perl data structure
Ben Bullock, <bkb@cpan.org>
This package and associated files are copyright (C) 2012-2016 Ben Bullock.
You can use, copy, modify and redistribute this package and associated files under the Perl Artistic Licence or the GNU General Public Licence.
To install HTML::Make, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm HTML::Make
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install HTML::Make
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.