How to repeat a list of items from a vector in hiccup?

Question

If I have a vector name-lst as ["John" "Mary" "Watson" "James"],

and I want to diplay them as list items, how do I do that using hiccup ?

something like

[:ul 
  (for [name name-list]
    [:li name])]

will return a list of [:li ] in between [:ul ] instead of just repeating. There must be something better. I am relatively new to hiccup, I searched but couldn't find anything.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 05 '14 at 09:59

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Once you feed the data structure to Hiccup you should get the expected result:

(require '[hiccup.core :refer [html]])

(def names
  ["John" "Mary" "Watson" "James"])

(html [:ul 
       (for [name names]
         [:li name])])
;=> "<ul><li>John</li><li>Mary</li><li>Watson</li><li>James</li></ul>"

answered Feb 05 '14 at 09:59

ponzao

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but for will return a list: ([:li "John"] [:li "Mary"] [:li "Watson"] [:li "James"]) will html conversion still work? – Amogh Talpallikar Feb 05 '14 at 10:26
`(html (for [name names] [:li name]))` => `"
John
Mary
Watson
James

ponzao

Feb 05 '14 at 12:50

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I tried. it works. hiccup is the most compact DSL for clojure I have seen :) – Amogh Talpallikar Feb 05 '14 at 13:01

How to repeat a list of items from a vector in hiccup?

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