Template::Plugin::HTML

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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



perl v5.8.8			  2007-05-29	    Template::Plugin::HTML(3)