Hiccup is a library for representing HTML in Clojure. It uses vectors to represent elements, and maps to represent an element's attributes.

Add the following dependency to your deps.edn file:

Or to your Leiningen project.clj file:

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Here is a basic example of Hiccup syntax:

The first element of the vector is used as the element name. The second attribute can optionally be a map, in which case it is used to supply the element's attributes. Every other element is considered part of the tag's body.

Hiccup is intelligent enough to render different HTML elements in different ways, in order to accommodate browser quirks:

And provides a CSS-like shortcut for denoting id and class attributes:

If the body of the element is a seq, its contents will be expanded out into the element body. This makes working with forms like map and for more convenient:

Strings are automatically escaped:

To bypass this, use the hiccup2.core/raw function:

This can also be used for doctype declarations:

In brief: Hiccup 1 doesn't escape strings by default, while Hiccup 2 does. They occupy different namespaces to ensure backward compatibility.

In Hiccup 1, you use the h function to escape a string - that is, ensure that unsafe characters like <, > and & are converted into their equivalent entity codes:

In Hiccup 2 strings are escaped automatically, but the return value from the html macro is a RawString, rather than a String. This ensures that the html macro can still be nested.

It's recommended to use Hiccup 2 where possible, particularly if your app handles user data. Use of the non-core namespaces, such as hiccup.page, should be avoided with Hiccup 2.

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