https://github.com/rstudio/htmltools
Tools for HTML generation and output
https://github.com/rstudio/htmltools
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Tools for HTML generation and output
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/rstudio/htmltools
- Owner: rstudio
- Created: 2014-04-03T10:11:03.000Z (about 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-08-22T15:23:32.000Z (10 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-05-03T01:12:06.209Z (about 1 month ago)
- Language: R
- Homepage: https://rstudio.github.io/htmltools/
- Size: 2.55 MB
- Stars: 220
- Watchers: 24
- Forks: 70
- Open Issues: 98
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: NEWS.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
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README
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# htmltools 
Tools for creating, manipulating, and writing HTML from R.
## Installation
Install the stable release of `htmltools` on CRAN:
```r
install.packages("htmltools")
```
Install the development version with:
```r
remotes::install_github("rstudio/htmltools")
```
## Quick overview
`{htmltools}` makes it easy to customize the user interface (UI) of any [Shiny](https://shiny.posit.co/) or [R Markdown](https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/) project by using R code to generate custom HTML (including JavaScript and CSS).
[This Shiny article](https://shiny.posit.co/articles/html-tags.html) provides a great introduction to `{htmltools}` (even if you're not interested in Shiny). As you'll learn in that article, the general foundation that `{htmltools}` provides allows other R packages (e.g., [`{htmlwidgets}`](http://www.htmlwidgets.org/), [`{crosstalk}`](https://rstudio.github.io/crosstalk/), etc.) to provide "HTML components" in R that users can manipulate and combine in ways the component authors didn't foresee.
For example, as described in depth [here](https://plotly-r.com/arranging-views.html#arranging-htmlwidgets), `{htmltools}` makes it fairly easy to arrange numerous `{htmlwidgets}` (e.g., `{plotly}` graphs) into a single static HTML webpage:
```r
library(htmltools)
library(plotly)
browsable(tagList(
plot_ly(diamonds, x = ~carat, height = 200),
plot_ly(diamonds, x = ~price, height = 200)
))
```
Also, thanks to `tagQuery()`, it is fairly easy to query and manipulate the underlying HTML structure of components. See the [`tagQuery()` article](https://rstudio.github.io/htmltools//articles/tagQuery.html) to learn more.
## Learn more
If you're looking to learn how to build more custom user interfaces by writing custom HTML/JavaScript/CSS, we recommend the following resource:
* Shiny's [UI](https://shiny.posit.co/articles/#user-interface) and [extensions](https://shiny.posit.co/articles/#extensions) articles
* [Outstanding UI with Shiny](https://unleash-shiny.rinterface.com/) by David Granjon
* [JavaScript for R](https://book.javascript-for-r.com/) by John Coene