NAME

       HTML::FormatText - Format HTML as plaintext

VERSION

       version 2.16

SYNOPSIS

           use HTML::TreeBuilder;
           $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new->parse_file("test.html");

           use HTML::FormatText;
           $formatter = HTML::FormatText->new(leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => 50);
           print $formatter->format($tree);

       or, more simply:

           use HTML::FormatText;
           my $string = HTML::FormatText->format_file(
               'test.html',
               leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => 50
               );

DESCRIPTION

       HTML::FormatText is a formatter that outputs plain text. All character attributes
       (bold/italic/underline) are ignored. Formatting of HTML tables and forms is not
       implemented.

       HTML::FormatText is built on HTML::Formatter and documentation for that module applies to
       this - especially "new" in HTML::Formatter, "format_file" in HTML::Formatter and
       "format_string" in HTML::Formatter.

       You might specify the following parameters when constructing the formatter:

       leftmargin (alias lm)
           The column of the left margin. The default is 3.

       rightmargin (alias rm)
           The column of the right margin. The default is 72.

SEE ALSO

       HTML::Formatter

AUTHORS

       •   Nigel Metheringham <nigelm@cpan.org>

       •   Sean M Burke <sburke@cpan.org>

       •   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Nigel Metheringham, 2002-2005 Sean M Burke,
       1999-2002 Gisle Aas.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.