HTML Attributes

HTML Attributes provide helper methods to convert arrays and hashes to valid html attributes. If this gem is included in a Ruby on Rails project it will extend the view helpers to pass arrays or hashes for class or style attributes.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "html_attributes"

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install html_attributes

Usage

{ :first => true, :second => false, :third => true }.to_class_attr
=> "first third"

[:first, :second, :third].to_class_attr
=> "first second third"

{ :margin => { :top => "10px", :left => "5px" }, :font_size => "12pt" }.to_style_attr
=> "margin-top: 10px; margin-left: 5px; font-size: 12pt;"

["padding-top: 8px", "padding-right: 15px", "font-size: 12pt"].to_style_attr
=> "padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 15px; font-size: 12pt;"

If gem is included in a Ruby on Rails project the view helpers are extended:

content_tag(:div, :class => { :first => true, :second => false, :third => true }) { ... }
=> <div class="first third">...</div>

content_tag(:div, :style => { :margin => { :top => "10px", :left => "5px" }, :font_size => "12pt" })  { ... }
=> <div style="margin-top: 10px; margin-left: 5px; font-size: 12pt;">...</div>

Extension

To support additional conversions of arrays, hashed, or any other objects to HTML attributes when using the Rails view helpers a #to_#{attribute_name}_attr method can be implemented.

class MyImageClass

  # initializer ...

  def to_width_attr
    @width
  end

  def to_height_attr
    @height
  end

end

img = MyImageClass.new
tag(:img, :width => img, :height => img)
=> <img width="30" height="20" />

Test

Checkout and cd into the repository and then run:

$ bundle install
$ bundle exec rspec spec