What is Mojo::DOM prepend_content?
Overview
The method prepend_content is used to prepend the HTML/XML fragment or raw content to the given element’s content. This method is provided by the Mojo::DOM module, which is an HTML/XML DOM parser with CSS selectors.
Syntax
$dom->prepend_content('HTML/XML fragment or raw content')
Return value
This method will return the Mojo::DOM object after prepending the given HTML/XML fragment or raw content to the given element.
Let’s look at an example.
Example
<div>
Inside div
<p id="a">Inside first paragraph </p>
</div>
When we prepend the HTML fragment <span>New content</span> to the element p using the prepend_content method, we’ll the following output:
<div>
Inside div
<p id="a"><span>New content</span>Inside first paragraph </p>
</div>
Example
use 5.010;use Mojo::DOM;# Parse the htmlsay my $dom = Mojo::DOM->new('<div>Inside div <p id="a">Inside first paragraph</p></div>');# Prepend the HTML fragment using prepend_contentsay $dom->at('p')->prepend_content('<span>New content</span>')->root
Explanation
- Line 2: We import the
Mojo::DOMmodule. - Line 5: We parse the HTML, store it in scalar
＄dom, and display it. - In Line 8: We prepend the given HTML fragment to the element
pusing theprepend_contentmethod, get the root element, and display it.
Note: The method
prependwill prepend the HTML fragment before the given element, and the methodprepend_contentwill prepend the HTML fragment before the content of the given element.