html writer
Usage
Moodle has a class called html_writer which allows you to output basic HTML tags. This is typically used within renderer functions, for example question/type/pluginname/renderer.php.
There is no documentation for most of this class. Please look at the source code in moodle/lib/outputcomponents.php.
To allow shorter code when outputting the div and span tags with classes, div and span methods were added in Moodle 2.5.
Methods
the div method
Moodle 2.5
html_writer::div(content, class="", attributes="");
Attributes is a key-value array.
Example usage:
$out .= html_writer::div('anonymous'); // <div>anonymous</div>
$out .= html_writer::div('kermit', 'frog'); // <div class="frog">kermit</div>
$out .= html_writer::div('Mr', 'toad', array('id' => 'tophat')); // <div class="toad" id="tophat">Mr</div>
spans
$out .= html_writer::start_span('zombie') . 'BRAINS' . html_writer::end_span(); // <span class="zombie">BRAINS</span>
generic tags
html_writer::tag(tag_name, contents, attributes=null);
html_writer::start_tag(tag_name, attributes=null;);
html_writer::end_tag(tag_name);
html_writer::empty_tag(tag_name, attributes=null);
html_writer::nonempty_tag(tag_name, content, attributes=null);
html_writer::attribute(name, value);
html_writer::attributes(attributes_array);
References
http://xref-diff.mukudu-dev.net/moodle32/lib/outputcomponents.php.html#html_writer
