HTML

A simple library for client-side HTML generation. Compatible with hsx2hs.

Documentation

fromStringLit :: String -> String

data Attr a b

Constructors

a := b

Instances

AsAttr (Attr String String)

class AsChild a

type class for embedding values as HTML children

since Fay does not yet support type-class methods we have to fake it via the ffi

Instances

AsChild [Char]

AsChild (Fay HTML)

asChild :: AsChild a => a -> Fay HTML

class AsAttr a

Instances

AsAttr (Attr String String)

asAttr :: Attr String String -> Fay (String, String)

data HTML

ADT for HTML

Constructors

Element String [(String, String)] [HTML]

Element name attributes children

CDATA Bool String

CDATA needEscaping value

Instances

AsChild (Fay HTML)

genElement

Arguments

:: (Maybe String, String)

Element name

-> [Fay (String, String)]

list of attributes

-> [Fay HTML]

list of children

-> Fay HTML

generate an HTML element

renderHTML :: HTML -> Fay JQuery

render the HTML into a JQuery DOM tree. You still need to append the result somewhere.

NOTE: This function requires jQuery

alert :: String -> Fay ()

Alert using window.alert.

tr

Arguments

:: [Fay (String, String)]

attributes

-> [Fay HTML]

children

-> Fay HTML

<tr>

td

Arguments

:: [Fay (String, String)]

attributes

-> [Fay HTML]

children

-> Fay HTML

<td>

span_

Arguments

:: [Fay (String, String)]

attributes

-> [Fay HTML]

children

-> Fay HTML

<span>

pcdata :: String -> Fay HTML

create a text node from the String. The String will be automatically escaped.

createElement

Arguments

:: String

name of the element

-> Fay Element

create a new Element

createTextNode

Arguments

:: String

text to insert in the node

-> Fay Element

create a new text node

NOTE: this doesn't really return an Element. It returns a TextNode or something. But fay-jquery only supports the Element type...