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NAME
CSS::Inliner - Library for converting CSS <style> blocks to inline
styles.
SYNOPSIS
use Inliner;
my $inliner = new Inliner();
$inliner->read_file({ filename => 'myfile.html' });
print $inliner->inlinify();
DESCRIPTION
Library for converting CSS style blocks into inline styles in an HTML
document. Specifically this is intended for the ease of generating HTML
emails. This is useful as even in 2013 Gmail and Hotmail don't support
top level <style> declarations.
METHODS
new
Instantiates the Inliner object. Sets up class variables that are
used during file parsing/processing. Possible options are:
html_tree - (optional) Pass in a fresh unparsed instance of
HTML::Treebuilder
NOTE: Any passed references to HTML::TreeBuilder will be
substantially altered by passing it in here...
strip_attrs - (optional) Remove all "id" and "class" attributes
during inlining
leave_style - (optional) Leave style/link tags alone within <head>
during inlining
relaxed - (optional) Relaxed HTML parsing which will attempt to
interpret non-HTML4 documents.
NOTE: This argument is not compatible with passing an html_tree.
fetch_file
Fetches a remote HTML file that supposedly contains both HTML and a
style declaration, properly tags the data with the proper
characterset as provided by the remote webserver (if any).
Subsequently calls the read method automatically.
This method expands all relative urls, as well as fully expands the
stylesheet reference within the document.
This method requires you to pass in a params hash that contains a
url argument for the requested document. For example:
$self->fetch_file({ url => 'http://www.example.com' });
read_file
Opens and reads an HTML file that supposedly contains both HTML and
a style declaration. It subsequently calls the read() method
automatically.
This method requires you to pass in a params hash that contains a
filename argument. For example:
$self->read_file({ filename => 'myfile.html' });
Additionally you can specify the character encoding within the file,
for example:
$self->read_file({ filename => 'myfile.html', charset => 'utf8' });
read
Reads passed html data and parses it. The intermediate data is
stored in class variables.
The <style> block is ripped out of the html here, and stored
separately. Class/ID/Names used in the markup are left alone.
This method requires you to pass in a params hash that contains
scalar html data. For example:
$self->read({ html => $html });
NOTE: You are required to pass a properly encoded perl reference to
the html data. This method does *not* do the dirty work of encoding
the html as utf8 - do that before calling this method.
inlinify
Processes the html data that was entered through either 'read' or
'read_file', returns a scalar that contains a composite chunk of
html that has inline styles instead of a top level <style>
declaration.
query
Given a particular selector return back the applicable styles
specificity
Given a particular selector return back the associated selectivity
content_warnings
Return back any warnings thrown while inlining a given block of
content.
Note: content warnings are initialized at inlining time, not at read
time. In order to receive back content feedback you must perform
inlinify first
Sponsor
This code has been developed under sponsorship of MailerMailer LLC,
AUTHOR
Kevin Kamel <kamelkev@mailermailer.com>
CONTRIBUTORS
Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, Michael Peters <wonko@cpan.org>
LICENSE
This module is Copyright 2013 Khera Communications, Inc. It is licensed
under the same terms as Perl itself.