---
name: "HTML::FormatText::Elinks"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libhtml-formatexternal-perl"
version: "26-6"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/HTML::FormatText::Elinks"
---

# HTML::FormatText::Elinks(3pm)

format HTML as plain text using elinks

## NAME

HTML::FormatText::Elinks - format HTML as plain text using elinks

## SYNOPSIS

```
 use HTML::FormatText::Elinks;
 $text = HTML::FormatText::Elinks->format_file ($filename);
 $text = HTML::FormatText::Elinks->format_string ($html_string);
 $formatter = HTML::FormatText::Elinks->new (rightmargin => 60);
 $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file ($filename);
 $text = $formatter->format ($tree);
```

## DESCRIPTION

`"HTML::FormatText::Elinks"` turns HTML into plain text using the `"elinks"` program.

\<http://elinks.cz/\>

The module interface is compatible with formatters like `"HTML::FormatText"`, but all parsing etc is done by elinks.

See `"HTML::FormatExternal"` for the formatting functions and options, all of which are supported by `"HTML::FormatText::Elinks"` with the following caveats.

- "input\_charset"

  As of Elinks 0.12pre2 (Oct 2008) has various unibyte input charsets but the only multibyte input charset accepted is utf-8.  You could recode others to utf-8 if necessary (but this module doesn't attempt to do that automatically).

Elinks can be a little picky about its charset names.  This module attempts to ease that by for instance turning "latin-1" (not accepted) into "latin1" (which is accepted).  A full name "ISO-8859-1" etc is accepted too.

## SEE ALSO

HTML::FormatExternal, [**elinks**(1)](/elinks/1.md)

## HOME PAGE

\<http://user42.tuxfamily.org/html-formatexternal/index.html\>

## LICENSE

Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 Kevin Ryde

HTML-FormatExternal is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

HTML-FormatExternal is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with HTML-FormatExternal.  If not, see \<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/\>.