Data structure representing an HTML attribute for the tag processor.

Source: wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-attribute-token.php
Since: 6.2.0
Access: private

Properties

name

public $name;

Type: string

The attribute name.

value_starts_at

public $value_starts_at;

Type: int

Byte offset where the attribute value starts in the input HTML.

value_length

public $value_length;

Type: int

Byte length of the attribute value.

start

public $start;

Type: int

Byte offset where the attribute name starts in the input HTML.

length

public $length;

Type: int

Byte length of the entire attribute expression (name and optional value).

Since: 6.5.0 (replaced end with length)

is_true

public $is_true;

Type: bool

Whether this is a boolean attribute with value true (attribute present without value).

Methods

__construct()

Creates an attribute token.

public function __construct( $name, $value_start, $value_length, $start, $length, $is_true )

Attribute Span Examples

Quoted Attribute

<div class="post">
     ^-----------^ length = 12 (including quotes)
     ^           start = 5
         ^---^   value portion (value_starts_at = 11, value_length = 4)

Boolean Attribute

<input type="checked" checked id="selector">
                      ^-----^ length = 7
                      is_true = true

Unquoted Attribute

<a rel=noopener>
   ^----------^ length = 11
   ^           start = 3
       ^------^ value portion

Usage in WP_HTML_Tag_Processor

The tag processor creates these tokens internally when parsing attributes:

$html = '<div id="test-4" class=outline title="data:text/plain;base64=xyz">';
$processor = new WP_HTML_Tag_Processor( $html );
$processor->next_tag();

// Internal attributes array might look like:
// [
//     'id' => WP_HTML_Attribute_Token( 'id', 9, 6, 5, 11, false ),
//     'class' => WP_HTML_Attribute_Token( 'class', 23, 7, 17, 13, false ),
//     'title' => WP_HTML_Attribute_Token( 'title', 38, 23, 31, 30, false ),
// ]

The token stores offsets into the original HTML string, allowing the processor to efficiently update or remove attributes by calculating replacement ranges.