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 escaped 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.

   add_attribute(attributes)
       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().

   replace_attribute(attributes)
       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().

   clear_attributes
       Clears any saved attributes

   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