NAME

HTML::FormatText - Format HTML as plaintext

VERSION

version 2.16

SYNOPSIS

use HTML::TreeBuilder; $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new->parse_file("test.html"); use HTML::FormatText; $formatter = HTML::FormatText->new(leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => 50); print $formatter->format($tree);

or, more simply:

use HTML::FormatText; my $string = HTML::FormatText->format_file( test.html, leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => 50 );

DESCRIPTION

HTML::FormatText is a formatter that outputs plain text. All character attributes (bold/italic/underline) are ignored. Formatting of HTML tables and forms is not implemented.

HTML::FormatText is built on HTML::Formatter and documentation for that module applies to this - especially new in HTML::Formatter, format_file in HTML::Formatter and format_string in HTML::Formatter.

You might specify the following parameters when constructing the formatter:

leftmargin (alias lm)

The column of the left margin. The default is 3.

rightmargin (alias rm)

The column of the right margin. The default is 72.

SEE ALSO

HTML::Formatter

AUTHORS

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Nigel Metheringham, 2002-2005 Sean M Burke, 1999-2002 Gisle Aas.

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