HTML Writer API

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This documentation is for Moodle 4.4.
You may also want to read the documentation for the upcoming version of Moodle.

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.

tip

Please consider using templates as an alternative to the HTML writer.

note

There is no documentation for most of this class. Please read HTML Writer Class Reference for further information.

Methods

div

html_writer::div(content, class="", attributes="");

Example usage:

html_writer::div('anonymous');  // <div>anonymous</div>
html_writer::div('kermit', 'frog'); // <div class="frog">kermit</div>

Attributes can be set by an array with key-value pairs.

html_writer::div('Mr', 'toad', array('id' => 'tophat'));
// <div class="toad" id="tophat">Mr/div>

span

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);