# HTML::AsSubs - phpMan

## NAME
    [HTML::AsSubs] - functions that construct a HTML syntax tree

## VERSION
    This document describes version 5.07 of [HTML::AsSubs], released August
    31, 2017 as part of HTML-Tree.

## SYNOPSIS
     use [HTML::AsSubs];
     $h = body(
               h1("This is the heading"),
               p("This is the first paragraph which contains a ",
                 a({href=>'link.html'}, "link"),
                 " and an ",
                 img({src=>'img.gif', alt=>'image'}),
                 "."
                ),
              );
     print $h->as_HTML;

## DESCRIPTION
    This module exports functions that can be used to construct various HTML
    elements. The functions are named after the tags of the corresponding
    HTML element and are all written in lower case. If the first argument is
    a hash reference then it will be used to initialize the attributes of
    this element. The remaining arguments are regarded as content.

    For a similar idea (i.e., it's another case where the syntax tree of the
    Perl source mirrors the syntax tree of the HTML produced), see
    [HTML::Element]'s "new_from_lol" method.

    For what I now think is a cleaner implementation of this same idea, see
    the excellent module "[XML::Generator]", which is what I suggest for
    actual real-life use. (I suggest this over "[HTML::AsSubs]" and over
    "CGI.pm"'s HTML-making functions.)

## ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
    This module was inspired by the following message:

     Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 16:11:30 +0100
     Subject: Wow! I have a large lightbulb above my head!

     Take a moment to consider these lines:

     %OVERLOAD=( '""' => sub { join("", @{$_[0]}) } );

     sub html { my($type)=shift; bless ["<$type>", @_, "</$type>"]; }

     :-)  I *love* Perl 5!  Thankyou Larry and Ilya.

     Regards,
     Tim Bunce.

     p.s. If you didn't get it, think about recursive data types: html(html())
     p.p.s. I'll turn this into a much more practical example in a day or two.
     p.p.p.s. It's a pity that overloads are not inherited. Is this a bug?

## BUGS
    The exported link() function overrides the builtin link() function. The
    exported tr() function must be called using &tr(...) syntax because it
    clashes with the builtin tr/../../ operator.

## SEE ALSO
    [HTML::Element], [XML::Generator]

  html head title base link meta isindex nextid script style body h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6 p pre div blockquote a img br hr ol ul dir menu li dl dt dd dfn cite code em kbd samp strong var address span b i u tt center font big small strike sub sup table tr td th caption form input select option textarea object applet param map area frame frameset noframe
    A bunch of methods for creating tags.

Private Functions
  _elem()
    The _elem() function is wrapped by all the html 'tag' functions. It
    takes a tag-name, optional hashref of attributes and a list of content
    as parameters.

## AUTHOR
    Current maintainers:

    *   Christopher J. Madsen "<perl AT cjmweb.net>"

    *   Jeff Fearn "<jfearn AT cpan.org>"

    Original HTML-Tree author:

    *   Gisle Aas

    Former maintainers:

    *   Sean M. Burke

    *   Andy Lester

    *   Pete Krawczyk "<petek AT cpan.org>"

    You can follow or contribute to HTML-Tree's development at
    <<https://github.com/kentfredric/HTML-Tree>>.

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    Copyright 1995-1998 Gisle Aas, 1999-2004 Sean M. Burke, 2005 Andy
    Lester, 2006 Pete Krawczyk, 2010 Jeff Fearn, 2012 Christopher J. Madsen.

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

    The programs in this library are distributed in the hope that they will
    be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty
    of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.