I have a local copy of a webpage saved as HTML. I want to convert this HTML file into an output similar to the output of the "reader view" found in modern web browsers.
Is there any tool I could use for this (UNIX-like or Windows)? Preferably I want to use is on a collection of local HTML files.
Thanks in advance.
jmt
There is an option that more or less does that: disable CSS. You will then get only the markup, not the makeup. Next, copy and paste the article text. To disable CSS in Chrome, see https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-disable-css-in-chrome. In Firefox, click View > Page Style > No style.
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I am using on my computer a file extension I invented .gameos, in the files with this extension I put html code (html+js+css).
Whenever I try to open this files with Chrome it shows me the plain text of the html document with all of its tags, all the functions of javascript and all style properties of css.
I was wondering if there is a way to solve this problem on my single computer (sort of telling chrome how to read this files) and if there was a way to solve the problem with every computer, so each one will always show the html game and not the plain text.
Thanks in advance
I have HTML code that compiles into a chm, and occasionally I want to include a link to directly download a file... for example a small binary drawing file (extension .qid in my app) used as sample data for a tutorial in the chm. I have been doing this just fine for little drawing files by just providing a link like this...
some text
But my current problem is I have a little sample dxf that is to be used in this tutorial and when I provide a download link like this...
some text
...then I get a link ok, but when I click on it, it puts the dxf contents inline as text, rather than poppping up a download Save As dialog for some file at a path like mk:#MSITStore:wherever.dxf
Now I looked at HTML attribute doco and found a 'download' attribute which is meant to force the link to download, but it made no difference. I used this syntax...
<a href="relativepath/some.dxf" title="whatever" download>some text</a>
...which generated a chm with a link but ignored the attribute 'download'.
How can I force the href link to lead to a download dialog for a dxf file?
Please note CHM's are 20 years old. hh.exe is the HTMLHelp executable on Windows and associated with *.CHM files. It's just a shell that uses the HTML Help API and is really just hosting a browser window based on the old Internet Explorer in the HTMLHelp Viewer window. This is not based on Microsoft's browser EDGE!
You know, the HTML (!) Attribute directs new browsers to download the linked resource rather than opening it.
But - the download attribute is not supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer.
I tested linking from a single local HTML file too. Other browsers like Firefox, Chrome and EDGE also open a link to a local *.DXF file always as text file.
This also happens with embedded (compiled into a CHM file) *.dxf files.
So, you'll need to create a link to a ZIP file like e.g. some.dxf.zipinstead.
UPDATE:
This is working when the *.DXF file is not embedded and stored on a server: Test it for your needs by using in the old manner
test.dxf download
I like how when I use F12 on chrome I can edit a page live and check the source files and all that, but I would like to be able to use this on my own website so that every edit I make using F12 is instantly saved to the local html/css file. I like the live output is what I mean. Are there any programs like this? I've tried extensions as well but they all seem to be standalone nothing to do with the website I am browsing through. Is there any way to run F12 as the owner of the website?
No its NOT possible.
However, you can use a scrapping software like Httrack and copy the entire remote website's CSS, JS and HTML files on your local system and then you can edit files manually using any text editor or IDE of your choice.
A lot of tutorials which can be downloaded have the file type of .chm, .pdf, .html, etc. I downloaded a Java SE tutorial of Java SE in HTML format. When I use chrome to view it and everything is good. But I just wonder how could I just directly highlight some useful information (e.g. text) when I use chrome to view it? The html files are local, I know that I could use some software to edit it, like using HTML tag <font color:> etc.
But I just want to highlight it directly in the browser like editing it in word. Is there any suggestion? Dose chrome support such kind of plugin? If you still don't understand what i mean, please refer to "clip to evernote", which is a plugin of chrome and can cut the pages and upload them to the evernote server. when I use evernote client to read them, I can directly highlight some words which is useful to me.
It's much more a SuperUser question, but ... There is a lot of plugins for highlighting web pages out there. You could try Yawas or Simple Highlighter
edit: ok, I think I understood better your problem ... Yawas, Simple Highlighter, as well as most other highlighters, don't hightlight on local pages.
I'm not sure there is such an highlighter available for Chrome, then. What I would suggest is to try opening you documentations with Amaya instead of Chrome. It's both the Browser and the Editor from the W3C; and since it has both functionalities, you probably will be able to do what you want on your local pages.
You can save it to your computer by clicking "Open a new tab containing a list of highlights and notes on just this page". Then you can save only the html contents to your computer with the name as you like. Don't try to use ALT to save the list of note because you will never see the contents what you want to save.
Page of the site, built on a client-side xml + xsl technologies, some browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.. save the file as pure xml. Without the xsl and css. As a result, saved the page looks horrible. Is it possible to force the save page as html?
If you use Firefox's save dialog (6.0.2), you can see that one of the options is Web Page, Complete. This means that just like normal XML, it also finds all the other linked documents (like CSS files for example) and saves them in the appropriate directory for offline browsing.
If your browser has this feature, then you can see it in its save dialog. Otherwise, it simply doesn't have it.
In Chrome: open F12 to bring up developer tools. Go to Elements tab and right click on html-element and select Copy../Copy element in context menu. Paste into you text editor of choice and save it as an html page.