NAME

Rose::HTML::Objects - Object-oriented interfaces for HTML.

SYNOPSIS

use Rose::HTML::Form;

$form = Rose::HTML::Form->new(action => '/foo',
                              method => 'post');

$form->add_fields
(
  name   => { type => 'text', size => 20, required => 1 },
  height => { type => 'text', size => 5, maxlength => 5 },
  bday   => { type => 'datetime' },
);

$form->params(name => 'John', height => '6ft', bday => '01/24/1984');

$form->init_fields();

$bday = $form->field('bday')->internal_value; # DateTime object

print $bday->strftime('%A'); # Tuesday

print $form->field('bday')->html;

DESCRIPTION

The Rose::HTML::Object::* family of classes represent HTML tags, or groups of tags. These objects allow HTML to be arbitrarily manipulated, then serialized to actual HTML (or XHTML). Currently, the process only works in one direction. Objects cannot be constructed from their serialized representations. In practice, given the purpose of these modules, this is not an important limitation.

Any HTML tag can theoretically be represented by a Rose::HTML::Object-derived class, but this family of modules was originally motivated by a desire to simplify the use of HTML forms.

The form/field object interfaces have been heavily abstracted to allow for input and output filtering, inflation/deflation of values, and compound fields (fields that contain other fields). The classes are also designed to be subclassed. The creation of custom form and field subclasses is really the "big win" for these modules.

There is also a simple image tag class which is useful for auto-populating the width and height attributes of img tags. Future releases may include object representations of other HTML tags. Contributions are welcome.

DEVELOPMENT POLICY

The Rose development policy applies to this, and all Rose::* modules. Please install Rose from CPAN and then run "perldoc Rose" for more information.

SUPPORT

Any Rose::HTML::Objects questions or problems can be posted to the Rose::HTML::Objects mailing list. To subscribe to the list or view the archives, go here:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rose-html-objects

Although the mailing list is the preferred support mechanism, you can also email the author (see below) or file bugs using the CPAN bug tracking system:

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Rose-HTML-Objects

AUTHOR

John C. Siracusa (siracusa@mindspring.com)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2006 by John C. Siracusa. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.