template::plugin::html(3spemr)
NAME
Template::Plugin::HTML - Plugin to create HTML elements
SYNOPSIS
[% USE HTML %]
[% HTML.escape("if (a < b && c > d) ..." %]
[% HTML.element(table => { border => 1, cellpadding => 2 }) %]
[% HTML.attributes(border => 1, cellpadding => 2) %]
DESCRIPTION
The "HTML" plugin is a very basic plugin, implementing a few useful
methods for generating HTML.
METHODS
- escape(text)
- Returns the source text with any HTML reserved characters such as "<", ">", etc., correctly esacped to their entity equivalents.
- attributes(hash)
- 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. - element(type, 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) %]
DEBUGGING
- 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">
AUTHOR
Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org> <http://wardley.org/>
COPYRIGHT
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.
SEE ALSO
- Template::Plugin