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TopSYNOPSIS
Top[% USE HTML %] [% HTML.escape("if (a < b && c > d) ..." %] [% HTML.element(table => { border => 1, cellpadding => 2 }) %] [% HTML.attributes(border => 1, cellpadding => 2) %]
DESCRIPTION
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The HTML plugin is a very basic plugin, implementing a few
useful methods for generating HTML.
METHODS
Topescape(text)
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Returns the source text with any HTML reserved characters such as
<, >, etc., correctly esacped to their
entity equivalents.
attributes(hash)
TopReturns 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)
TopGenerates 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
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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
TopAndy Wardley <abw@wardley.org> http://wardley.org/
COPYRIGHT
TopCopyright (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.