Can the metadata feature be used to ergonomically emulate HTML attributes? It's ...

nerdponx · 2025-11-25T03:45:35 1764042335

I'm not sure how the metadata syntax works, but you might not need it because you can do this:

  (html
    (head
      (title "Hello!"))
    (body
      (div
        (p
          "This is an example of a hyperlink: "
          (a "Example" :href "https://example.org/")))))

delaguardo · 2025-11-25T06:26:12 1764051972

I think you can use metadata to model html attributes but in clojure people are using plain vector for that. https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

tl;dr first element of the vector is a tag, second is a map of attributes test are children nodes:

[:h1 {:font-size "2em" :font-weight bold} "General Kenobi, you are a bold one"]

geokon · 2025-11-27T06:07:13 1764223633

Also Hickory。。

https://github.com/clj-commons/hickory

i feel hiccup indexed based magic is a common design pattern you see in early Clojure and its less common now (id say hiccup is the exception that lives on)