Presenting results in an HTML web page

Sharing data online is one of the quickest ways to reach a broad audience. However, typing data into HTML directly can be time consuming. This recipe will generate a web page using the Blaze Haskell library to present data results. For more documentation and tutorials, visit the project webpage at http://jaspervdj.be/blaze/.

Getting ready

Install the Blaze package from cabal using the following command:

$ cabal install blaze-html

How to do it…

In a new file called Main.hs, perform the following steps:

1. Import all the necessary libraries as follows:

   {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
   
   import Control.Monad (forM_)
   import Text.Blaze.Html5
   import qualified Text.Blaze.Html5 as H
   import Text.Blaze.Html.Renderer.Utf8 (renderHtml)
   import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as BSL

2. Convert the list of string into an HTML unordered list as shown in the following code snippet:

   dataInList :: Html -> [String] -> Html
   dataInList label items = docTypeHtml $ do    ...