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Modest

Modest is a fast HTML renderer implemented as a pure C99 library with no outside dependencies.

From lexborisov·Updated June 15, 2026·View on GitHub·

Modest is a fast HTML renderer implemented as a pure C99 library with no outside dependencies. The project is written primarily in C, distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 license, first published in 2016. Key topics include: c, css, css-parser, css-selector, html.

Modest — a pure C HTML renderer

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Modest is a fast HTML renderer implemented as a pure C99 library with no outside dependencies.

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The current version is 0.0.6 - devel

Features

  • MyCORE — base module, it is used by all other modules
  • MyHTML — HTML parser by specification
  • MyCSS —  CSS parser and modules by specification
  • MyENCODING — work with character encodings, detecting encoding, convert encodings by specification
  • MyFONT — work with font, metrics, calculating size and more by specification
  • MyURL — URL parser by specification
  • MyPORT — system depended code: threads (if build with threads, default), work with memory, io, timers
  • Modest — calculating, compare, renderer

Introduction

Introduction

Dependencies

None

Installation

See INSTALL.md

External Bindings and Wrappers

  • Crystal wrapper for CSS Selectors (Modest Finder)
  • Python binding for Modest engine (fast HTML5 parser and CSS selectors)
  • Elixir/Erlang bindings
  • Perl 5 HTML5::DOM module (fast HTML5 parser with DOM and CSS selectors)
  • arrogant library for D programming language (fast HTML5 parser with DOM and CSS selectors)

Examples

See examples directory

AUTHOR

Alexander Borisov lex.borisov@gmail.com

Copyright (C) 2015-2017 Alexander Borisov

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

See the LICENSE file.

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