NAME

HTML::Display::Common - routines common to all HTML::Display subclasses

__PACKAGE__->new %ARGS

Creates a new object as a blessed hash. The passed arguments are stored within the hash. If you need to do other things in your constructor, remember to call this constructor as well :

package HTML::Display::WhizBang;
use base 'HTML::Display::Common';

sub new {
  my ($class) = shift;
  my %args = @_;
  my $self = $class->SUPER::new(%args);

  # do stuff

  $self;
};

$display->display %ARGS

This is the routine used to display the HTML to the user. It takes the following parameters :

html     => SCALAR containing the HTML
file     => SCALAR containing the filename of the file to be displayed
base     => optional base url for the HTML, so that relative links still work

location    (synonymous to base)

Basic usage :

my $html = "<html><body><h1>Hello world!</h1></body></html>";
my $browser = HTML::Display->new();
$browser->display( html => $html );

Location parameter :

If you fetch a page from a remote site but still want to display it to the user, the location parameter comes in very handy :

my $html = '<html><body><img src="/images/hp0.gif"></body></html>';
my $browser = HTML::Display->new();

# This will display part of the Google logo
$browser->display( html => $html, base => 'http://www.google.com' );