I was going over my company's code base, and I saw some file format I have never seen before. They are all ended with .thtml .
What exactly is the .thtml? I was told it is for template files, and every time I view it in vscode I need to choose a language at bottom right corner of the IDE (default was plain text). What is the use of template file in web development? Are they the substitutes of .html files?
HTML templates are HTML files enriched with variables, macros or other logic. They need to be preprocessed to ordinary HTML files before they can be viewed in a broswer. HTML templates are very useful when you want to create a lot of static HTML files sharing the same structure but with different contents.
There are several HTML templating engines out there, of which one happens to be named exactly thtml. (Of course this does not guarantee that it is the one your company uses.)
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I use "pieces" to avoid confusion with the built-in "snippets" functionality.
The scenario is that I am rendering pages server-side in Nodejs, and as part of that I want to code portions of html in files that can be used to assemble an entire page. These are project-specific so the snippets functionality is really not useful here. Problem is if I write an html file that for example only has a section, VSCode tells me there is an error since that file does not start with <DOCTYPE>, etc.
The goal here is reusable pieces instead of duplicating for each page. E.g. define a header.html file that only defines the <header> section, and can then be inserted into each rendered page.
Has anyone done similar? How to tell VSCode to treat as HTML but without demanding a complete document and indicating an error?
Django shows you forms when you do basic coding, right?
Where is the html of the automatically generated form in windows?
So instead of looking for a template folder, once the developer writes the url or views code, he finds the location of the skeleton-only html that Django shows.
In my opinion, it looks like it's built somewhere like an "anaconda/envs" contains a separate virtual environment, but I can't find it.
it's maybe path?
It's well documented:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/forms/renderers/
It loads templates first from the built-in form templates directory in
django/forms/templates
unless you have 3rd party libraries included that override these templates.
However, a quick check in https://github.com/django/django/tree/master/django/forms/templates/django/forms/ shows that this directory is empty.
tl;dr
Django does not render any forms from scratch (unless it's the Admin which of course creates its whole UI automatically). It just enables you to quickly create a template that can render your form but you will still have to provide a basic template (aka HTML markup with dynamic parts) yourself.
I run a website for my photography where I have a stories page (http://www.traumantic.com/stories.htm) that is a long list of choices that lead to a sub folder and a gallery of images for that session.
I have an index.htm file in each of those folders that displays the gallery chosen.
I am trying to develop a new format for my pages, and putting it in place means replacing dozens of index.htm files and editing each one for that new format. A boatload of work.
I have noted that a lot of news sites seems to have a method of using a single template for the main body of the page and the elements of the news story are pulled in from another source.
I figured I could do this with XML like I did with my galleries, but I am lost.
I tried creating an XML file in a couple of text folders and then reading that form an HTM file two levels up. Didn't work.
Currently when you click on a link on my stories page, it opens the index.htm file in a sub-folder.
What I want to happen is this.
Clicking on a choice on my stories page launches an html template that reads the details from the folder.
The one html template would be used for all of the different story folders below. Making it far easier to modify the look of my web site quickly.
I'd rather put a ton a of work into designing this system that doing a mass replace and edit project on hundreds of files.
I hope this makes sense to some of you and that you can guide me to some study topics that will help me learn how to do this.
I am seeking advice on places where I can see example of this process.
The simplest option is to use an iframe
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp
<iframe src="/path/to/file.html"></iframe>
Searching "html include" will yield a few guides that have various JavaScript implementations. (e.g., https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_html_include.asp)
If you're able to run php, you could use include
https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_includes.asp
But at that point, you might want to consider installing some sort of template engine like twig https://twig.symfony.com/doc/2.x/intro.html
Paul Irish gave some amazing insight on web tooling this time during googleio 2013. So he was presenting some slides that had been parsed into html from a markdown source i.e a .md file.
However one thing that surprised me was when he edited the source markdown for the slides in the chrome dev tools sources panel and then hit refresh, the .md automatically compiled again into the html to be output on the browser. Now I understand that the changes he made to the markdown file in the chrome dev tools were made also on his local file saved on the computer, but how did the markdown file automatically get converted into the html file upon save and refreshing the browser?
I am a complete beginner with markdown and I would really like to have this functionality. Any help is deeply appreciated
The whole purpose of markdown is that it is both human readable and machine readable. It is designed to be converted to HTML.
Depending on the language you are using, there are markdown parsers that create HTML for you.
For example, for PHP.
So, as an example, to have your server show the contents of say, homepage.md, your index.php file could have something like this:
$filename = $_GET['file'];
$content = markdown( file_get_contents( "path_to_markdown/{$filename}.md" ) );
print $content;
And, to see it in your browser you would go to example.com/?file=homepage
I will do my best to answer this.
HTML Mark down is a shorthand syntax that can be interpreted by a web browser to format or render the page in html.
this is taken from Stack Overflow.
eg
The syntax is based on the way email programs
usually do quotations. You don't need to hard-wrap
the paragraphs in your blockquotes, but it looks much nicer if you do. Depends how lazy you feel.
So, like converting from a file in notepad ++ from text to html. The file will be formatted using the basic rules of that particular syntax.
It also must be remembered, that programs are not mind readers. If the mark down code is not valid, neither will the corresponding html code. Just as saving a text file that is "supposed" to be formatted in html. It won't save as a working html file if the syntax is incorrect.
Also, markdown is not a total replacement for real code. It cannot cover the breadth and depth of the true coding language. I could liken it to pseudocode, but that is more of a lateral example.
In answer to your latest comment, If a second file is created from a first file (and the format is altered) -( in this case from mark down to html) - If the first file is then edited, without overwriting the changes into the second file, it cannot expect to be altered.
This is a good link a fellow SO gave me:
https://stackoverflow.com/editing-help
Please feel free to edit, if I have made an error.
I haven't tried this extension for Chrome but it seems to automatically render markdown (.md) files in Chrome.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdown-preview/jmchmkecamhbiokiopfpnfgbidieafmd?hl=en
In Firefox, I use the following extension for the same functionality.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/markdown-viewer/
No need for a separate .html file, just save the text file with .md extension and open it in the browser.
Hope that helps.
I know that Word have option to save the document into web page, but what is produce as result doesn't suit my needs.
I want my document to be save as web page with separate folder, which include images and .css files. But the Word only include the images not the css file.
How can I achieve this with Word or some other tool (need to be free)?
Given that Java is your preferred language, you could try docx4j [disclaimer: I manage it].
See the CreateHtml sample.
Note: docx4j supports docx only (as opposed to legacy binary .doc; those can be converted using LibreOffice).