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TopDESCRIPTION
TopNOTE: 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
Top- 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
Top- 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. 
 
- border
                        
- 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. 
 
- col
                        
- 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. 
 
- col
                        
- 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
TopAndy Wardley <abw@wardley.org>
VERSION
Top2.68, distributed as part of the Template Toolkit version 2.19, released on 27 April 2007.
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.