NAME

Text::Table::HTML - Generate HTML table

VERSION

This document describes version 0.010 of Text::Table::HTML (from Perl distribution Text-Table-HTML), released on 2023-05-22.

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Table::HTML;

my $rows = [
    # header row
    ['Name', 'Rank', 'Serial'],
    # rows
    ['alice', 'pvt', '123<456>'],
    ['bob',   'cpl', '98765321'],
    ['carol', 'brig gen', '8745'],
];
print Text::Table::HTML::table(rows => $rows, header_row => 1);

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a single function, table, which formats a two-dimensional array of data as HTML table. Its interface is modelled after Text::Table::Tiny 0.03.

The example shown in the SYNOPSIS generates the following table:

<table>
<thead>
<tr><th>Name</th><th>Rank</th><th>Serial</th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>alice</td><td>pvt</td><td>123&lt;456&gt;</td></tr>
<tr><td>bob</td><td>cpl</td><td>98765321</td></tr>
<tr><td>carol</td><td>brig gen</td><td>8745</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>

COMPATIBILITY NOTES WITH TEXT::TABLE::TINY

In Text::Table::HTML, header_row is an integer instead of boolean. It supports multiple header rows.

Cells in rows can be hashrefs instead of scalars.

FUNCTIONS

table(%params) => str

OPTIONS

The table function understands these arguments, which are passed as a hash.

  • rows

    Required. Array of array of (scalars or hashrefs). One or more rows of data, where each row is an array reference. And each array element is a string (cell content) or hashref (with key text to contain the cell text or raw_html to contain the cell's raw HTML which won't be escaped further), and optionally other attributes: rowspan, colspan, align, bottom_border).

  • caption

    Optional. Str. If set, will add an HTML <caption> element to set the table caption.

  • header_row

    Optional. Integer. Default 0. Whether we should add header row(s) (rows inside <thead> instead of <tbody>). Support multiple header rows; you can set this argument to an integer larger than 1.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Text-Table-HTML.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Text-Table-HTML.

SEE ALSO

Text::Table::HTML::DataTables

Text::Table::Any

Bencher::Scenario::TextTableModules

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTOR

Diab Jerius <djerius@cfa.harvard.edu>

CONTRIBUTING

To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub.

Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via:

% prove -l

If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, Pod::Weaver::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla- and/or Pod::Weaver plugins. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2023, 2022, 2021, 2017, 2016 by perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Text-Table-HTML

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.