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Dominate is a Python library for creating and manipulating HTML documents using an elegant DOM API. It allows you to write HTML pages in pure Python very concisely, which eliminate the need to learn another template language, and to take advantage of the more powerful features of Python.

Language: Python

#10 in HTML
#164 in Python
The obvious final step | May 2023
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Pretty much how https://github.com/Knio/dominate does it, but no context variable binding (otherwise gets messy with lots of nesting)
That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something | May 2023
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You're conflating two things, dynamically creating HTML is great and lets you avoid JS in a lot of cases. It's whether you should treat your HTML document as the tree of nodes that it is in your programming language or treat it like a string.

https://github.com/Knio/dominate is a Python lib that implements this principal.
Asterisks in Python | Oct 2018
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I feel you, however I also love https://github.com/Knio/dominate - a Python library to generate HTML.

Generating HTML always felt awkward for me in many languages. From PHP where you sprinkle PHP between HTML or HTML between PHP, to frameworks in various languages where you populate variables and HTML is magically generated.

Somewhere in between there are template languages.

"Dominate" uses Python itself as the template language - this means there never is that "disconnect" where you have to validate your output, neither is it that disconnect coming from generators, nor do you have to learn and use a separate template language. Dominate can look like this:

    return hr(), p(
        a(
            'Start',
            href = '/start'
        ),
        style = 'text-align: center;'
    )
If the Python is valid, so is the HTML.

For me it hit a sweet spot. Dominate uses kwargs. I discovered this and (a?)bused kwargs when I wanted to add some tags of my own.