org.josef.web.html

Class HtmlStringWriter

java.lang.Object

org.josef.web.html.AbstractHtmlWriter

org.josef.web.html.HtmlStringWriter

public class HtmlStringWriter
extends AbstractHtmlWriter

HTML writer that writes its output to a String.
The resulting String can be retrieved by executing toString().
The following example writes an HTML heading with an id.

     HtmlStringWriter htmlWriter = new HtmlStringWriter();
     htmlWriter.writeEnclose("h1", "Heading text", "id='idh1'");
 

Other methods allow you to write a start tag, then write whatever content and then write an end tag. All in all these methods are really low-level. In the example above you will have to quote the value of an attribute yourself. On the plus side, the low-level methods give you great flexibility regarding the generation of HTML code. Instead of using the low-level methods provided by this class, you may instead want to investigate HtmlElement, which provides a way to construct HTML from objects which in turn can be converted to HTML output.

Version:

1.0 $Revision: 6488 $

Author:

Kees Schotanus

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
HtmlStringWriter()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	toString() Gets the HTML code.
HtmlStringWriter	write(Object text) Writes the supplied text to the buffer.

Methods inherited from class org.josef.web.html.AbstractHtmlWriter

writeAttributes, writeDocType, writeEnclose, writeEndTag, writeln, writeln, writeStartEndTag, writeStartTag

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

HtmlStringWriter

public HtmlStringWriter()

Method Detail

write

public HtmlStringWriter write(Object text)

Writes the supplied text to the buffer.

Specified by:

write in class AbstractHtmlWriter

Parameters:

text - The text to write.
A null text is silently ignored.

Returns:

This HtmlStringWriter for method chaining.

toString

public String toString()

Gets the HTML code.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

The HTML code.