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leforestier / yattag

Python library to generate HTML or XML in a readable, concise and pythonic way.
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CSS with yattag #52

Closed kevinashaw closed 5 years ago

kevinashaw commented 5 years ago

How does one add CSS objects to HTML with yattag? A brief bit of sample code would help tremendously. My core goal is to redefine the

tag for a document that I need to be built with Python, and I would like to use CSS to define it. Thanks. -K

kevinashaw commented 5 years ago

Based on my research this is one way. Is this the recommended method for yattag:

        with tag('head'):
            with tag('style'):
                doc.asis('p {color:blue}')
        with tag('html'):
            with tag('body'):
                line('p',"Hello world")
                ...
leforestier commented 5 years ago

Yes, that would work here, but in general I'd rather use the text method instead of asis. That would ensure that a possible '<' or '&' character in your CSS instructions don't end up messing up the HTML structure of the document. Actually, I rarely use <style> tags. I prefer to put the CSS instructions in one or more separate files and use <link rel="stylesheet" href="mystyle.css">.

kevinashaw commented 4 years ago

@leforestier. Thank you. We are using HTML to format and publish reports. The reports needs to be self-contained with no external links. Hence, we need a way to embed all CSS formatting. The proposed method works well. Thanks!