Phoenix.HTML.Tag

Creates an HTML tag with given name, content, and attributes.

iex> content_tag(:p, "Hello")
{:safe, "<p>Hello</p>"}
iex> content_tag(:p, "<Hello>", class: "test")
{:safe, "<p class=\"test\"><Hello></p>"}

iex> content_tag :p, class: "test" do
...>   "Hello"
...> end
{:safe, "<p class=\"test\">Hello</p>"}

Generates a form tag.

This function generates the <form> tag without its closing part. Check form_tag/3 for generating an enclosing tag.

Examples

form_tag("/hello")
<form action="/hello" method="post">

form_tag("/hello", method: :get)
<form action="/hello" method="get">

Options

• :method - the HTTP method. If the method is not “get” nor “post”, an input tag with name _method is generated along-side the form tag. Defaults to “post”.

• :multipart - when true, sets enctype to “multipart/form-data”. Required when uploading files

• :csrf_token - for “post” requests, the form tag will automatically include an input tag with name _csrf_token. When set to false, this is disabled

• :enforce_utf8 - when false, does not enforce utf8. Read below for more information

All other options are passed to the underlying HTML tag.

Enforce UTF-8

Alhought forms provide the accept-charset attribute, which we set to UTF-8, Internet Explorer 5 up to 8 may ignore the value of this attribute if the user chooses their browser to do so. This ends up triggering the browser to send data in a format that is not understandable by the server.

For this reason, Phoenix automatically includes a “_utf8=✓” parameter in your forms, to force those browsers to send the data in the proper encoding. This technique has been seen in the Rails web framework and reproduced here.

Generates a form tag with the given contents.

Examples

form_tag("/hello", method: "get") do
  "Hello"
end
<form action="/hello" method="post">...Hello...</form>

Creates an HTML tag with the given name and options.

iex> tag(:br)
{:safe, "<br>"}
iex> tag(:input, type: "text", name: "user_id")
{:safe, "<input name=\"user_id\" type=\"text\">"}

Boolean values

In case an attribute contains a boolean value, its key is repeated when it is true, as expected in HTML, or the attribute is completely removed if it is false:

iex> tag(:audio, autoplay: true)
{:safe, "<audio autoplay=\"autoplay\">"}
iex> tag(:audio, autoplay: false)
{:safe, "<audio>"}

If you want the boolean attribute to be sent as is, you can explicitly convert it to a string before.