html-creator

Python library to dynamically generate html in an etree-like structure

Installation

Run pip install html-creator or download zip/clone

Docs

Document(title=''): Your HTML document.

Args

• title: The title of your document. This is optional and can be specified later

Methods

• Using str() on this object will return the formatted html content of the Document.

Properties

• Document.children: The direct children of the document
• Document.head: The head tag of the document (automatically generated)
• Document.body: The body tag of the document (automatically generated)

Element(tag='p',attrs={},content=''): A single HTML element/tag

Args

• tag: The tag name, like div, p, or h1
• attrs: The attributes of the element, in a dict
• content: Text content of your tag

Methods

• Using str() on this object will return the formatted html tag, including formatted html versions of all child tags
• Using len(Element object) will return the number of children
• Using Element[index] will return the element at that index
• Using Element.append(new Element object instance) or Element.add_child(new Element object instance) adds a child Element to the Element

Properties

• tag, attrs, content: See Args
• children: The direct children on the Element

CSS(Dict={}): A utility class for generating CSS

Args

• Dict: Specifies a starting dictionary (Must be in form {selector: {property: value,property: value,property: value}, selector2: {property: value,property: value,property: value}})

Methods

• del CSS[selector] and CSS[selector], respectively, delete and get the specified selector in the CSS object
• add_sel(selector): Adds a selector to add properties to
• add_property(selector, property, value): Adds property property with value value to selector selector
• del_property(selector, property): Deletes property property from selector selector
• str(CSS object): Returns a formatted CSS string

Properties

• dict: The dictionary used by the CSS object. Can be edited directly, but could cause issues