util.html

HTML helper functions

Installation

This module uses yarn to manage dependencies and run scripts for development.

To install as an application dependency:

$ yarn add util.html

To build the app and run all tests:

$ yarn run all

Overview

This module contains custom HTML manipulation functions.

API

Attributes

• events - an array of possible events that can be used in javascript for event listeners. The list was taken from MDN.

functions

• getFontWidth - Reads the current font style information from the body of the current document.
• getTextWidth - Takes an input string and font settings and computes the pixel width of the string.
• newlineToBreak - takes a string with newline characters and replaces them with <br />
• translateHTML - converts special HTML characters to their single character equivalents (such as &quote; to ").
• trimHTML - special trim function to remove spaces from the front/end of an HTML string.