haml--haml/REFERENCE.md

Hamlit

Basically Hamlit is the same as Haml. See Haml's tutorial if you are not familiar with Haml's syntax.

REFERENCE - Haml Documentation

Supported features

See Haml's reference for full features in original implementation.

• Using Haml
  • Rails XSS Protection
  • Ruby Module
  • Options
  • Encodings
• Plain Text
  • Escaping: \
• HTML Elements
  • Element Name: %
  • Attributes: `
    • :class and :id Attributes
    • HTML-style Attributes: ()
    • Ruby 1.9-style Hashes
    • Attribute Methods
    • Boolean Attributes
    • HTML5 Custom Data Attributes
  • Class and ID: . and #
    • Implicit Div Elements
  • Empty (void) Tags: /
  • Whitespace Removal: > and <
  • Object Reference: []
• Doctype: !!!
• Comments
  • HTML Comments: /
    • Conditional Comments: /[]
  • Haml Comments: -#
• Ruby Evaluation
  • Inserting Ruby: =
  • Running Ruby: -
    • Ruby Blocks
  • Whitespace Preservation: ~
  • Ruby Interpolation: #{}
  • Escaping HTML: &=
  • Unescaping HTML: !=
• Filters
  • :cdata
  • :coffee
  • :css
  • :erb
  • :escaped
  • :javascript
  • :less
  • :markdown
  • :maruku
  • :plain
  • :preserve
  • :ruby
  • :sass
  • :scss
  • :textile
  • Custom Filters
• Helper Methods
  • surround
  • precede
  • succeed
• Multiline: |
• Whitespace Preservation
• Helpers

Limitations

No pretty mode

Haml has :pretty mode and :ugly mode. :pretty mode is used on development and indented beautifully. On production environemnt, :ugly mode is used and Hamlit currently supports only this mode.

So you'll see difference rendering result on development environment, but it'll be the same on production.

No Haml buffer

Hamlit uses Array as buffer for performance. So you can't touch Haml::Buffer from template when using Hamlit.

Haml helpers are still in development

At the same time, because some methods in Haml::Buffer requires Haml::Buffer, they are not supported now. But some helpers are supported on Rails. Some of not-implemented methods are planned to be supported.

Limited attributes hyphenation

In Haml, %a{ foo: { bar: 'baz' } } is rendered as <a foo-bar='baz'></a>, whatever foo is. In Hamlit, this feature is supported only for data attribute. Hamlit renders %a{ data: { foo: 'bar' } } as <a data-foo='bar'></a> because it's data attribute.

This design allows us to reduce work on runtime and is originally in Faml.

Limited boolean attributes

In Haml, %a{ foo: false } is rendered as <a></a>, whatever foo is. In Hamlit, this feature is supported for only boolean attributes, which are defined by http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/guidelines.html or https://html.spec.whatwg.org/. The list is the same as ActionView::Helpers::TagHelper::BOOLEAN_ATTRIBUTES. In addition, data-* is also regarded as boolean.

Since foo is not boolean attribute, %a{ foo: false } is rendered as <a foo='false'></a> (foo is not removed). This is the same behavior as Rails helpers.

Also for %a{ foo: nil }, Hamlit does not remove non-boolean attributes and render <a foo=''></a>. This design allows us to reduce String concatenation.

This is the largest difference between Hamlit and Faml.

5 Types of Attributes

Haml has 3 types of attributes: id, class and others. In addition, Hamlit treats data and boolean attributes specially. So there are 5 types of attributes in Hamlit.

id attribute

Almost the same behavior as Haml, except no hyphenation and boolean support. Multiple id specification results in _-concatenation.

# Input
%div{ id: %w[foo bar] }
#foo{ id: 'bar' }

# Output
<div id='foo_bar'></span>
<div id='foo_bar'></span>

class attribute

Almost the same behavior as Haml, except no hyphenation and boolean support. Multiple class specification results in unique alphabetical sort.

# Input
%div{ class: 'd c b a' }
.d.a(class='b c'){ class: 'c a' }

# Output
<div class='d c b a'></div>
<div class='a b c d'></div>

data attribute

Completely compatible with Haml, hyphenation and boolean are supported.

# Input
%div{ data: { disabled: true } }
%div{ data: { foo: 'bar' } }

# Output
<div data-disabled></div>
<div data-foo='bar'></div>

boolean attributes

No hyphenation but complete boolean support.

# Input
%div{ disabled: 'foo' }
%div{ disabled: true }
%div{ disabled: false }

# Output
<div disabled='foo'></div>
<div disabled></div>
<div></div>

List of boolean attributes is:

disabled readonly multiple checked autobuffer autoplay controls loop selected hidden scoped async
defer reversed ismap seamless muted required autofocus novalidate formnovalidate open pubdate
itemscope allowfullscreen default inert sortable truespeed typemustmatch

data-* is also regarded as boolean.

other attributes

No hyphenation and boolean support.

# Input
%input{ value: true }
%input{ value: false }

# Output
<input value='true'>
<input value='false'>

Engine options

Option	Default	Feature
escape_html	true	HTML-escape for Ruby script and interpolation. This is false in Haml.
escape_attrs	true	HTML-escape for Html attributes.
format	:html	You can set :xhtml to change boolean attribute's format.
attr_quote	'	You can change attribute's wrapper to " or something.

Set options for Rails

# config/initializers/hamlit.rb or somewhere
Hamlit::RailsTemplate.set_options attr_quote: '"'

Set options for Sinatra

set :haml, { attr_quote: '"' }