d_to_html.d

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On Saturday, 5 August 2017 at 19:07:50 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> Hi, I made a D to HTML generator which is basically diet, but 
> fully using the D compiler as generator and not some 
> complicated parser, etc. Here an example what you pass in:
>
> string page = html(
> 	head(
> 		title("wtf is this"),
> 		style(
> 			html(
> 				font-family = "Roboto",
> 				background = 0xEFEFEF
> 			),
> 			div.content(
> 				max-width = 800.px,
> 				margin = auto_,
> 				margin-top = 32.px,
> 				box-shadow = "0 2px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3)",
> 				background = white,
> 				padding = 32.px
> 			),
> 			div.footer(
> 				text-"align" = center
> 			)
> 		)
> 	),
> 	body(
> 		div.content(
> 			h1("The most crappy HTML generator ever"),
> 			div.teaser(
> 				p("Super fast")
> 			),
> 			hr,
> 			p("Reasons why you should use d_to_html:"),
> 			ul(
> 				li("TODO: no reason yet") * 5
> 			)
> 		),
> 		div.footer(
> 			p(raw!"© 2017 webfreak.org")
> 		)
> 	)
> ).toString;
>
> Which generates: https://i.webfreak.org/fStzn0.html
>
> Full source: 
> https://gist.github.com/WebFreak001/6a1916779e48898c7ababc47a3113829
>
> Though some things (like min and max for example) won't work 
> correctly, so you need to manually write `attr!"min" = 4` if 
> you wanted to add that to an input element.
>
> btw this is just a joke project, it's totally abusing operator 
> overloading just to show what is possible with it. The idea 
> came up in Wild's discord server, you can join us too, we have 
> a programming and a dplug channel: 
> https://discordapp.com/invite/bMZk9Q4

Just because you *can* do something, it doesn't mean you 
*should*. ;-)

Very creative, I don't think reading source code has ever made me 
chuckle before.