# How to get the Raw HTML output of ELM applications
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**Created:** [October 22, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/how-to-get-the-raw-html-output-of-elm-applications/10025 "2024-10-22T13:40:38Z")\
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Hi,
I would like to know how to get the Complete HTML view of my website which is generated from ELM.
Here is an example
view-source:[https://santhosh.thediaryofanentrepreneur.com/](https://santhosh.thediaryofanentrepreneur.com/) This is my landing page I created using elm-land.
It doesn’t give me the complete Html view.
Is there a way I can download the raw HTML of the site generated from ELM?
Best would be a package or tool which elm supports. But for now I’m open to know if there are any **other cli tools** which could help me get such raw html.
**NOTE:**
I have already tried
```bash
# elm make --output=index.html
```
Which produces the output
```html
Santhosh's profile
```
Which is not I’m looking for. I need the complete html views generated as html tags.
Thanks
Santman
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I don’t know exactly what you are trying to achieve, but I would say that [elm-pages](https://elm-pages.com/) is the best at producing pages that are sent as HTML over the wire.
Might be annoying to switch though, if you’re already using Elm Land.
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> [@lydell](#):
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> Might be annoying to switch though, if you’re already using Elm Land.
Thanks @lydell for your response. Yep. Migrating is not an option now ☹
Just to give some more context. I want to send the generated files from elm as email. And having these content as embedded javascript will not work for Email HTML, so I needed the raw HTML instead of the one with the javascript generated by elm.
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Then it sounds like you might be looking for [elm-html-string 2.0.2](https://elm.dmy.fr/packages/zwilias/elm-html-string/latest/), and maybe [Platform - core 1.0.5](https://elm.dmy.fr/packages/elm/core/latest/Platform#worker) to run an Elm program in Node.js, for example as a CLI tool that writes the email HTML files.
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Thank you @lydell I will have a look
> [@lydell](#):
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> for [elm-html-string 2.0.2](https://elm.dmy.fr/packages/zwilias/elm-html-string/latest/)
Looks 5 years old. I will check if it still works. But I already see the limitations of `img` tag being not supported. But still will give me some good insight on how to go about it.
> [@lydell](#):
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> [Platform - core 1.0.5](https://elm.dmy.fr/packages/elm/core/latest/Platform#worker)
I need more time to look at this. I will get back with some updates shortly.
Thank you again for your pointers!
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> [@SANTMAN](#):
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> Looks 5 years old. I will check if it still works.
elm/html is 6 years old. Elm packages don’t really stop working over time.
> [@SANTMAN](#):
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> But I already see the limitations of `img` tag being not supported
What do you mean it’s not supported? [Html.String - elm-html-string 2.0.2](https://elm.dmy.fr/packages/zwilias/elm-html-string/latest/Html-String#img)
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> [@lydell](#):
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> What do you mean it’s not supported? [Html.String - elm-html-string 2.0.2](https://elm.dmy.fr/packages/zwilias/elm-html-string/latest/Html-String#img)
> **[GitHub - zwilias/elm-html-string at 2.0.2](https://github.com/zwilias/elm-html-string/tree/2.0.2)**
>
> 2.0.2
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I think that point about “void elements” only points out, that something like
```elm
img [] [div [] [text "test"] ]
```
would NOT result in
```html
test
```
but would result in
```html
```
Somebody opened a PR ([#13](https://github.com/zwilias/elm-html-string/pull/13)), that adds a test case for void elements and they use an image tag as their test example - so it looks like it should work.
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Just for kicks, I also thought of hand rolling my own DSL parser and `renderer` in ELM
>
It is not complete yet. Wanted to get some opinion on pros and cons of such thing compared to the possible solutions suggested here.
Obvious Cons is that, too much boiler plate code.
But the upside is I’m able to render the generated HTML using elm-land and also dump the required html on to the console, which I could pick from “node myscript.js” and get my work done.
I’m open for some feedback on this custom DSL apporach.
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Here’s an example of extracting data when executing Elm with Node.js: [elm-port-gen/src at master · ronanyeah/elm-port-gen · GitHub](https://github.com/ronanyeah/elm-port-gen/tree/master/src)
Another project you may want to leverage is: [https://documentation.mjml.io/](https://documentation.mjml.io/) (non-Elm)
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> [@ronanyeah](#):
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> Another project you may want to leverage is: [https://documentation.mjml.io/](https://documentation.mjml.io/) (non-Elm)
Thank you for the suggestion. Infact I’m trying to build an alternative for this using Elm 🙂
> [@ronanyeah](#):
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> Here’s an example of extracting data when executing Elm with Node.js: [elm-port-gen/src at master · ronanyeah/elm-port-gen · GitHub](https://github.com/ronanyeah/elm-port-gen/tree/master/src)
Can you please update the readme file on how to use this exactly?
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There is also [elm-html-in-elm 1.0.2](https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/ThinkAlexandria/elm-html-in-elm/latest/), which requires a small patch of the generated JS elm app.
elm-pages uses (a vendored version of) this internally. Or you could try [GitHub - ThinkAlexandria/elm-static-html: Statically render html from Elm!](https://github.com/ThinkAlexandria/elm-static-html), which is a CLI wrapper around it.
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