Indenting / nesting content macro #15
Description
Hi, I think I have a (partial) solution to the nesting problem: a function to format content as-if it is a nested and indented HTML element.
For instance, if I generate some HTML like so:
let content = html! {
ul {
li { : "toot" }
}
}
I get the following HTML:
<ul><li>toot</li></ul>
As an aside, this puzzles me, is there anything I can do to get indented output? It'd be a great feature to me, I would expect output like this
<ul>
<li>
toot
</li>
</ul>
Anyway, now I want to insert it into an HTML page:
let page = html! {
html {
body {
: Raw(content)
}
}
}
And this gets me:
<html><body><ul><li>toot</li></ul></body></html>
Now, what I'm suggesting is a function or character to insert raw text with newlines and an indent, like so:
let page = html! {
html {
body {
> content
}
}
}
Or perhaps: > Raw(content), or : Block(content), or some other variant.
For the result:
<html><body>
<ul><li>toot</li></ul>
</body></html>
It would take the indent level from the parent's indent level and add one to it. If the raw content is multiline, it would indent all lines separately, like so:
<html><body>
<ul><li>toot</li></ul>
<ul><li>toot</li></ul>
</body></html>
What do you think? Would this be hard to implement? It'd really be a boon to getting nice formatted HTML output out of my Markdown server project (https://gitlab.com/willemmali-rust/markbrowse).