Articles tagged 'html'
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Writing elegant HTML with HAML
January 4, 2012
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on January 4, 2012.
Another cool thing that we learned while building the new Rambling Labs site was HAML. It’s a markup language that is based on the premise that ‘Markup should be beautiful’, in their own words.
It’s very easy to install, just add
gem 'haml'
to yourGemfile
and runbundle install
. To use it, replace yourview_name.html.erb
file with aview_name.html.haml
file.Like SASS and CoffeeScript, to achieve the beauty it professes, HAML uses indentation to determine what it should do next. This means, and you guessed it, that it writes beautifully.
Compare this ERb file:
<div id="single_post"> <h2 class="post_title"><%= link_to post.title, post %></h2> <div