Would you like class-based tag helpers to compose an HTML tag
imperatively over several statements? If so, what API would you like?
I looked around for precedents but didn't find any. I've been playing
around with something like this.
class Tag(list):
- 'name' is positional arg (the tag name).
- elements are children. (text and/or subtags)
- .attrs is a dict of attributes.
- .__html__() returns a literal.
class UL(list):
- elements are children. (will be converted to <li>'s on render)
- .attrs is a dict of attributes for the <ul> tag.
. .li_attrs is a dict of attributes for the <li> tags.
- This doesn't allow some <li> tags to have different attributes
than others. This matters if you want to mark one as class="active"
(i.e., the current one). I can't think of how to do this without
overriding list.append() and introducing some complex structure. Or
converting the elements to Tag's immediately, but that loses the
advantage of the elements being just the <li>'s content.
class Select(list):
- Same concept but elements are options.
- .group() -> make an option group which can contain options.
class Link(object):
- .text and .url attributes, and perhaps .attrs.
- should the text be called text, content, title, or label? All of
these have other meanings in HTML, except 'content', but 'content'
implies something larger than just a short phrase.
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Mike Orr <[email protected]>
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