Template::Library::HTML(3)

NAME
Template::Library::HTML - Template library for building basic HTML pages

DESCRIPTION
NOTE: This documentation is incomplete and may be incorrect in places.

The 'html' template library is distributed as part of the Template Toolkit. It can be found in the 'templates' sub-directory of the installation directory.

    use Template;

    my $tt2 = Template->new({
        INCLUDE_PATH => '/usr/local/tt2/templates',
    });

For a portable way to determine the installation 'templates' directory, you can use the "Template::Config->instdir()" class method.

    use Template;

    my $tt2 = Template->new({
        INCLUDE_PATH => Template::Config->instdir('templates'),
    });

You should now be able to access the html library as, for example:

    [% INCLUDE html/header %]

Note that some of the more basic elements don't give you much more than the raw HTML tags. In many cases you might be well advised to stick to regular HTML rather than complicating matters by the use of template elements.

e.g.

    <table>
      . . .
    </table>

vs

    [% WRAPPER html/table %]
       . . .
    [% END %]

However, the use of template elements to generate the underlying HTML does have some important benefits, particularly as the constructs start to get more complicated and more magical.

See the example in the 'examples' sub-directory of the distribution directory for further examples and enlightenment on using this library.

  Headers, Footers and Pages

header
    The 'header' element generates the regular header required as the pre-amble for an HTML document. That is, everything from the initial <html> to the opening <body>.

        [% INCLUDE html/header
             title = 'This is a Test'
             bgcol = '#ffffff'
        %]

    Additional header items can be provided by explicitly setting the 'headers' variable, e.g.

        [% headers = BLOCK %]
        <META name="description" content="Template Toolkit">
        <META name="REVISIT-AFTER" content="14 days">
        <META name="keywords" content="Templates, Web, ...etc...">
        [% END %]

        [% INCLUDE html/header
             title = 'This is a Test'
             bgcol = '#ffffff'
        %]

footer
    The 'footer' element generates the terminating </body> and </html> element to balance the header.

        [% PROCESS html/header %]

        ...page content here...

        [% PROCESS html/footer %]

page
    The 'page' element combines the 'html/header' and 'html/footer' elements.

        [% WRAPPER html/page %]

        ...page content here...

        [% END %]

    Page content should be defined in the 'content' variable (e.g. via WRAPPER). Additional HTML headers should be defined in the 'headers' variable.

        [% WRAPPER html/page
            headers = '<META name="keywords" content="foo, bar, ...">'
        %]

        ...page content here...

        [% END %]

  Tables, Bars and Boxes

table
    A basic element for creating HTML tables.

        [% WRAPPER html/table pad=10 space=4 col='#404040' %]
           <tr>
            <td>Hello</td> <td>World</td>
           </tr>
        [% END %]

    The following variables may be defined:

    border
        Set the border width (default: 0)

    col Set the background colour (default: none).

    width
        Set a fixed table width.

    pad Set the cellpadding.

    space
        Set the cellspacing.

    content
        Content for the box. Supplied automatically if used via WRAPPER.

row A basic element for creating HTML table rows.

        [% WRAPPER html/table %]
           [% WRAPPER html/row %]
            <td>Hello</td> <td>World</td>
           [% END %]
        [% END %]

    The following variables may be defined:

    col Set the background colour (default: none).

    valign
        Set the vertical alignment.

    rowspan
        Specify the number of rows to span.

    content
        Content for the box. Supplied automatically if used via WRAPPER.

cell
    A basic element for creating HTML table cells.

        [% WRAPPER html/table %]
           [% WRAPPER html/row %]
              [% INCLUDE html/cell
                    FOREACH content = ['Hello', 'World'] %]
           [% END %]
        [% END %]

    The following variables may be defined:

    col Set the background colour (default: none).

    align
        Set the horizontal alignment.

    colspan
        Specify the number of columns to span.

    content
        Content for the cell. Supplied automatically if used via WRAPPER.

bar The bar element is a wrapping of html/table + html/row.

        [% WRAPPER html/bar %]
           <td>Foo</td>  <td>Bar</td>
        [% END %]

box The box element is a wrapping of html/table + html/row + html/cell

        [% WRAPPER html/box %]
           Hello World!
        [% END %]

AUTHOR
Andy Wardley <abw@andywardley.com>

<http://www.andywardley.com/|http://www.andywardley.com/>

VERSION
2.70, distributed as part of the Template Toolkit version 2.14, released on 04 October 2004.

COPYRIGHT
  Copyright (C) 1996-2004 Andy Wardley.  All Rights Reserved.
  Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.

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

SEE ALSO
Template::Library::Splash