I'm wanting to create a HTML page to be accessed via the kindle browser. I'm wanting to create a puzzle using a form and, when the user solves the puzzle, it will just create a new puzzle. I'm aiming to use cookies to hold the users progress. It can cope with HTML and CSS 3. Can I get a normal web page to redraw itself after the user submits without going back to the server?
Before I get started on the project I just wanted to see whether it was possible doing it this way. Ideally I'd like to put the HTML, CSS and any data into a mobi format but I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask that.
Anyway, thanks for reading.
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thanks in advance for your time to help me.
So... I work on a Retail store and we use a kiosk-like app on the laptops with the hardware and price information.
Recently i realized (because it runs 24/7) the lcds are getting burned by the kiosk app and its a major problem to the store.
Since i cannot make changes on the app itself i realized the best option was to create some kind of solution to this problem.
So i thought on creating an offline / local website in HTML that mimics the layout on the kiosk app and use some kind of anti-lcdburn jquery running along. (already have the code for the anti burn jquery).
My main problem is the kiosk app was really user-friendly on the configuration. Anyone on my store could easily change the data showing.
But in the other hand if i want to implement a static html website, anyone without html skills can't easily change the values.
My first thought was to create some kind of config file and find a way to import it. My main issue it i need to make this so that anyone with low-it skills can enter a page , change values and those values would show up on the kiosk page.
Something like a simple CMS but for a local file.
Any ideas?
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Can you display the website inside an iframe?
If so, just make a file that loads the website in an iframe, with the anti screen-burn jQuery over the top.
Anything more than that would be overkill and rebuilding something that appears to already exist - have you considered asking the creator of the app to include an anti screen-burn option?
I only know CSS and HTML. I have to create a web page with an account opening form. My faculty had told me to make it at that so I built it. He asked me not to host it.
Now he is asking me to take everyone response and create a database. I could do that by sending the webpage to everyone and asking them to download the page locally in their system and then open and fill the form. But I do not know how to save that data. If I could get the output in a text file it will be time saving, but even if the page retains the information while my classmates send it back to me it will be great. Can anyone help me on how to save the data?
I know creating a word file would have been much easier but he wanted web page so I am stuck.
You cannot do this with only HTML and CSS. To do this, you would have to code a server-sided page so that you can serve HTML pages to your users, as well as receive data back from them.
I am a newbie to web development so sorry for my stupidity. I am actually creating a local website and I wanted to make a user profile page on that website. What I want to accomplish is that the profile page should be not be editable in the normal use case but when the user presses the Edit button (like in facebook), the fields become editable and a save button appears (basically a form but without reloading the page or any server side work). The user then updates the fields and saves. The save request will be sent to the server to update the database (can that somehow be done without reloading the page too ? i see facebook page does not reload when you edit and save).
So that is it. Waiting for a reply.
P.S. I think some javascript code will come to my rescue.
This is a very general question, so I can't do anything but give a general answer. I would highly recommend you learn jQuery.
jQuery makes it easy to manipulate the HTML and CSS from Javascript - which you'll need to do in order to show/hide the content and the forms for editing the content (or otherwise manipulate the code on the page in order to achieve what you want - there are various ways to do this, adriano's comment on your question lays out a good solution).
The specific part about sending such requests in the background is called AJAX, and jQuery has support for that too.
Im quite new to HTML. What I am trying to do, is create a table in HTML (Which I have done with the standard table tags (table)(/table) etc...
The table has a number of headings, such as Name, Number, 10/10, Percentage, Option
(those aren't the exact titles but you get the idea)
The Name and Number heading is just text that won't change (the same for the text beneath these columns) Which is all fine and dandy, very easy to do.
The part I am struggling with, is part of the table that needs to be able to be edited and saved. In a nutshell, what I want 2 of the columns to do:
When the webpage is loaded up, display information that is stored in MS-Access or MS-Excel (So Automatically READ from file on page loadup)
When the user changes information on the webpage I want it to amend the data in the correct cells on the Access page, so overwrite it, As if you were typing something into Access yourself and clicking the save button.
Is this possible using HTML, Javascript and or PHP? Everything needs to be Clientside. The webpage is built, i'm Using Input type="text" for the text boxes in the table, and I was wondering if using (form) (/form) and some (Script) I could do this. I have searched on the internet and have found some examples where you can read and write to Excel but need ActiveX enabled on IE. It's a work computer and a task I have been asked to complete. There are no administrator privaliges on the system, and I can't enable ActiveX controls in IE so the other method did not work for me. Is there any other way?
You can't archive things like file access, reading and writing to databases's client side. You need to use a server side technology, incidentally, PHP is a server side technology and not client side.
Client side is everything that is run on the users browser, I.E. Chrome, etc. Server side is everything that is run within the web server, before the HTML is sent to the client.
I get the feeling your trying to run before you can walk here. You need to research how web sites work more.
I'm using UIWebView to display data from my organization data (publicize and legal), however, for instance, I would only want to pull specific data from the html file rather than pulling the whole URL. e.g. I want to pull the "News" section of the html and I want the user to only stay in that page, not enabling them to go into other parts of the website (e.g. home page, contact us) and allowing them to view the PDF article on the HTML file.
I've asked around and read up on DOM and screen scraping, but it seem that the data pulled are stored in a database instead.
Is there any way that I can pull just the HTML "News" section with the PDF URL into my customized HTML file and that it will be updated live (maybe every 30second it will refresh and pull information from the website so that the content and list of PDF are up to date)(e.g. added in 3new article into the main website, my customize HTML file will also refresh and pull information from website and update my article list)
If anyone can point to me a specific method that allow HTML to HTML data passing (live), that will be great and I can go do more research on it. Currently very lost and confuse as it is my first time doing this. Any help/feedback will be very much appreciated :)
EDIT: For example, google map or google search. I don't want to use the whole google webpage, just taking the important thing that i want like the search result or map display.
This will involve quite a lot of learning on your part - you'll have to learn HTML / the DOM / JavaScript and iOS/UIWebVIew.
Lets leave the live refresh part for now, I'll post another answer or edit to that later on.
That's not going to easy either (check out my earlier posting today on background execution issues that will affect you, unless the update is only to take place in the foreground
iOS Run Code Once a Day)
You will have to do something like this. And note that I've never tried this, nor seen posting of people who have on here, but in theory it should work, but there will be a lot of learning as I've said, and lots of trial and error. Its a big task when you're not familiar with these things.
1) Download the html page and load it in a UIWebView, but that UIWebView is hidden so the user's can't see it.
2) When the page has loaded its dom will be accessable.
3) You can use Javascript to access the DOM and look for the parts you want.
How you inject and run the Javascript in UIWebView can be answered in a separate question (this answer will get too long if all the exact details are included).
4) Remove the parts of the dom you are not interested in. Or use use events to make only those parts you are interested in appear, jQuery can probably help here.
5) Display the UIWebView
Alternatively the HTML could be saved to a file and string parsing could be used to search for the bits you are looking for and create a new text html file from it. I think this would get very messy, better to take advantage of the fact that UIWebView will parse the HTML page and create the dom for you.