This template engine is a way to create html via nested method calls. Each tag is a method on a TemplateEngine instance which can receive an object literal of attributes and their values, and/or content. The output is a nicely formatted html string.
This template engine is a way to create html via nested method calls. Each tag is a method on a TemplateEngine instance which can receive an object literal of attributes and their values, and/or content. The output is a nicely formatted html string.
{ data: { bs: { toggle: 'collapse' } } } becomes data-bs-toggle="collapse"{ dataBsToggle: 'collapse' } becomes data-bs-toggle="collapse"t.input({ type: 'checkbox', checked: true }) becomes <input type="checkbox" checked> or <input type="checkbox"> if checked is falsearia-* and data-* attributes.hx when using htmx) can be added by passing the additionalNamespaces property to the constructorvalidationLevel can be set to off, warn, or error..literal method allows you to pass in html as a string..htmlWithDocType is the same as .html, but adds the <!DOCTYPE html> tag to the beginning of the string..toString() on the outermost method to expicitly convert to string. This can often be omitted if the output is sent as a string.`${t.html(t.body('hello'))}`.toElement() to create a dom element instead of a stringKensington class with your ownthis.createCustomTag() with the following arguments
tagName - the name that is used in the <some-custom-element></some-custom-element>allowedAttributes - an optional object of allowed attribute names and types. Global and data/aria attributes are always allowed// TypeScript
import Kensington from 'kensington';
import type { ContentMethod } from 'kensington';
declare module 'kensington' {
interface NameSpaceAttributes {
[key: `hx${string}`]: string | object
}
}
class MyTemplateEngine extends Kensington {
someCustomElement: ContentMethod<{ someCustomAttribute?: boolean | 42 }> = this.createCustomTag('custom-element', { 'some-custom-attribute': [Boolean, 42] });
}
// JavaScript
import Kensington from 'kensington.js';
class MyTemplateEngine extends Kensington {
someCustomElement = this.createCustomTag('some-custom-element', { 'some-custom-attribute': [Boolean, 42] });
}
const t = new MyTemplateEngine({
validationLevel: 'warn',
additionalNamespaces: ['hx'],
indentationLevel: 2,
});
const html = t.htmlWithDoctype({ lang: 'en' }, [
t.head(t.title('My Page Title')),
t.body(
t.main({ class: 'container' }, [
t.h1('My Great Project'),
t.h3({ class: 'small' }, 'a new way'),
t.hr({ class: 'fancy-line' }),
t.section([
'To Do List',
t.ul([
t.li({
data: {
bs: {
toggle: 'collapse',
target: '#some-id',
},
},
ariaExpanded: 'false',
}, 'this'),
t.li([
t.input({ id: 'coolness', type: 'checkbox', checked: isCool }),
t.label({ for: 'coolness'}, 'Cool?')
]),
t.literal('<li>some regular html</li>'),
]),
]),
]),
),
]).toString();
/* Generated html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>My Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<main class="container">
<h1>My Great Project</h1>
<h3 class="small">a new way</h3>
<hr class="fancy-line">
<section>
To Do List
<ul>
<li data-bs-toggle="collapse" data-bs-target="#some-id" aria-expanded="false">this</li>
<li>
<input id="coolness" type="checkbox">
<label for="coolness">Cool?</label>
</li>
<li>some regular html</li>
</ul>
</section>
</main>
</body>
</html>
*/
// import instance directly if you don't need customization
import { t } from 'kensington';
FAQs
This template engine is a way to create html via nested method calls. Each tag is a method on a TemplateEngine instance which can receive an object literal of attributes and their values, and/or content. The output is a nicely formatted html string.
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