My god, I just had to use a very ugly hack involving HTML generation via string concatenation, passing a function as a parameter and closures.

Now I appreciate languages that achieve such things naturally even more.

Didn't understand completely. Which language were you using? AFAIK most of the languages have libraries to handle HTML/XML/scraping data. And even if you want to go by most lame way you can do string formatting, just pass the params you want to format and good to go.

Completely forgot to mention it😌
I was using PHP