CGI::Pretty(3)

🎀 NAME 🎀

Okay bestie, welcome to the CGI::Pretty(3) page — yep, User Contributed Perl Documentation vibes. This is the module to produce nicely formatted HTML code. Cute concept, honestly. 💖✨

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🚨 CGI::Pretty IS DEPRECATED 🚨

Real talk: CGI::Pretty is deprecated, no cap. It will be removed from the CGI distribution in a future release, so you should no longer use it and remove it from any code that currently uses it. Periodt. 💅

For now it has been reduced to a shell to prevent your code breaking, but the "pretty" functions will no longer output "pretty" HTML. So if you came here for the formatting glow-up... it's giving deprecated shell, not pretty HTML. 💀😭

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🌈 Alternatives 🌈

The page points at these alternatives, bestie — not me making stuff up, this is literally the list:

The combo HTML::HTML5::Parser + HTML::HTML5::Writer + XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint goes like this:

           print HTML::HTML5::Writer->new(
               start_tags => 'force',
               end_tags   => 'force',
           )->document(
               XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint->new_for_html( indent_string => "\t" )
               ->pretty_print(
                   HTML::HTML5::Parser->new->parse_string( $html_string )
               )
           );

• Marpa::R2::HTML — see the html_fmt script for examples
• HTML::Tidy
• HTML::Parser

okay that’s the whole page, bestie — signing off from CGI::Pretty(3) with perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-01-09 💖✨