litehtml/litehtml

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2430 stars · 300 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

litehtml is a lightweight C++ HTML/CSS rendering engine that parses HTML (via gumbo-parser) and computes element layout with CSS2/CSS3 support. It draws nothing itself; developers implement a simple document_container callback interface using any graphics/font library.

Use cases

• render html-formatted text in a desktop application
• show html tooltips without embedding webkit
• build a lightweight mini-browser
• layout html emails for display
• embed html rendering in a c++ gui app
• render bootstrap-styled html pages in a custom viewer

When to choose

• you need to display simple HTML/CSS content in a C++ application without the weight of WebKit
• you want full control over drawing via your own graphics/font libraries
• you need a portable engine that only depends on the STL
• your content uses common HTML tags and CSS properties rather than cutting-edge web standards

When to avoid

• you need full, standards-compliant rendering of modern complex websites
• you need JavaScript execution or dynamic web app support
• you are not working in C++ or cannot implement the document_container interface
• you need a complete out-of-the-box browser rather than a layout engine

Facets

library · maturity active

parser graphics gui web-development frontend developer-tools cpp cross-platform windows html-rendering css-layout html5-parser gumbo-parser lightweight embeddable utf-8 mini-browser linux

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