HTML::...:Hidden(3pm)

💖 HTML::Widget::Element::Hidden 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the HTML::Widget::Element::Hidden man page — section 3pm, Perl user-contributed docs, the whole vibe. it's a hidden element. it's giving "you can't see me but i'm literally in the form" ✨. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

HTML::Widget::Element::Hidden — Hidden Element 👻

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

my $e = $widget->element( 'Hidden', 'foo' );
$e->value('bar');

that's it, that's the whole flex. make a Hidden element called foo, then set its value to bar. slay 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Hidden Element. periodt. it's an element, and it's hidden, no cap 👑

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🎀 METHODS 🎀

⭐ value

Default value is 1. yep, 1. not zero, not undef, one. iconic behaviour honestly.

⭐ retain_default

if this is true, it overrides the default behaviour, so that after a field is missing from the form submission, the xml output will contain the default value, rather than be empty. so basically: field goes missing → normally the output is empty → but with retain_default true, you get the default value instead. the way that just… keeps your default 😭💖

⭐ new

(the constructor. it's here. it exists. main character energy 🌈)

⭐ containerize

(also here. living its life. 💜)

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• HTML::Widget::Element — go read this one too, iykyk

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Sebastian Riedel, "sri@oook.de" — thank you for your service king 🫡💖

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🌈 LICENSE 🌈

This library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. free as in go off, bestie 🎀

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lowkey reminder: this page is from perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-08-10, and it's the HTML::Widget::Element::Hidden page from the 3pm section of the User Contributed Perl Documentation. okay bye, drink water, go set some hidden values 💅✨🌸