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---
language: haml
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filename: learnhaml.html.haml
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contributors:
- ["Simon Neveu", "https://github.com/sneveu"]
---
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Haml is a markup language predominantly used with Ruby that cleanly
and simply describes the HTML of any web document without the use of
inline code. It is a popular alternative to using rails templating
language (.erb) and allows you to embed ruby code into your markup.
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It aims to reduce repetition in your markup by closing tags for you
based on the structure of the indents in your code. The result is
markup that is well-structured, DRY, logical, and easier to read.
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```haml
/ -------------------------------------------
/ Comments
/ -------------------------------------------
/ This is what a comment looks like haml.
/
To write a multi line comment, indent your commented code to be
wrapped by the forward slash
-# This is a silent comment, which means it wont be rendered into the doc at all
/ -------------------------------------------
/ Html elements
/ -------------------------------------------
/ To write your tags, use the percent sign followed by the name of the tag
%body
%header
%nav
/ Notice no closing tags. The above code would output
<body>
<header>
<nav></nav>
</header>
</body>
/ Divs are the default elements so they can be written simply like this
.foo
/ To add content to a tag, add the text directly after the declaration
%h1 Headline copy
/ To write multiline content, nest it instead
%p
This is a lot of content that we could probably split onto two
separate lines.
/ You can escape html by using the ampersand and equals sign ( &= )
%p
&= "Yes & yes"
/ which would output 'Yes &amp; yes'
/ You can unescape html by using the bang and equals sign ( != )
%p
!= "This is how you write a paragraph tag <p></p>"
/ which would output 'This is how you write a paragraph tag <p></p>'
/ Classes can be added to your tags either by chaining .classnames to the tag
%div.foo.bar
/ or as part of a ruby hash
%div{:class => 'foo bar'}
/ Attributes for any tag can be added in the hash
%a{:href => '#', :class => 'bar', :title => 'Bar'}
/ For boolean attributes assign the value 'true'
%input{:selected => true}
/ To write data-attributes, use the :data key with it's value as another hash
%div{:data => {:attribute => 'foo'}}
/ -------------------------------------------
/ Inserting Ruby
/ -------------------------------------------
/
To output a ruby value as the contents of a tag, use an equals sign followed
by the ruby code
%h1= book.name
%p
= book.author
= book.publisher
/ To run some ruby code without rendering it to the html, use a hyphen instead
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- books = ['book 1', 'book 2', 'book 3']
/ Allowing you to do all sorts of awesome, like ruby blocks
- books.shuffle.each_with_index do |book, index|
%h1= book
if book do
%p This is a book
/
Again, no need to add the closing tags to the block, even for the ruby.
Indentation will take care of that for you.
/ -------------------------------------------
/ Inline Ruby / Ruby interpolation
/ -------------------------------------------
/ Include a ruby variable in a line of plain text using #{}
%p Your highest scoring game is #{best_game}
/ -------------------------------------------
/ Filters
/ -------------------------------------------
/
Use the colon to define haml filters, one example of a filter you can
use is :javascript, which can be used for writing inline js
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:javascript
console.log('This is inline <script>');
```
## Additional resources
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- [What is HAML?](http://haml.info/) - A good introduction that does a much better job of explaining the benefits of using HAML.
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- [Official Docs](http://haml.info/docs/yardoc/file.REFERENCE.html) - If you'd like to go a little deeper.