I have some text tables on my module POD, e.g. Bencher::Scenario::Accessors::Get.

I'm thinking of showing a sortable HTML table (which contains some JavaScript) instead when the POD is rendered to HTML as in sites like metacpan.org. This will be done using =begin HTML ... =end HTML POD commands.

I'd also like that the text table is not displayed on HTML output, so the user is not seeing two tables (one text and one HTML). Any idea? Two of mine so far:

1) in the =begin HTML ... =end HTML snippet, hide the text table DOM element using some CSS or JS. But this will depend on how the POD is rendered to HTML, i.e. I can make it work on metacpan.org but it might not work on other sites like say search.cpan.org which might render the HTML differently.

2) put the text table in =begin man ... =end man *and* =begin text ... =end text. But this feels dirty. What about other output formats?

In reply to Only showing part of POD when not rendered as HTML by perlancar

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