For future processing I want my server to render my React to static HTML and publish the HTML files into directory on my server.
How I do this? I looked at server side rendering such as https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-snapshot but I am not sure exactly if it will create a file I will be able to see - when I looked at the instructions it didn't seem to request a path for the file so I don't think I will be able to see the render file.
I hate to give such a vague and generic answer, but really your question (or lack thereof) is vague also, so ....
In short, there are many ways to convert HTML to Mobi, and this article outlines several of them: https://www.epubor.com/convert-html-to-mobi.html
If you're issue is more "how do I get HTML from JSX", you'll want to look into "server-side React rendering".
I'm building a website hosted on Github Pages that has a gallery that sources a lot of images from a folder. I keep running into two problems:
1) I upload a picture and Github automatically rotates it?
2) HTML wont find the image if I reference it as say "example.jpg" when it is saved as "example.JPG". Less of a question, just looking for insight into why theres a distinction when capitalized.
Your best bet is to probably just manually edit (rotate/align) the photos in your computers builtin photo software.
As for the image extension, if you're running into problems with file extension capitalization then just go with what works. Change all extensions to either one uppercase or lower case would make the most sense to me.
Linux's file system is case sensitive; but in general, a best practice I follow is to point to what the URL is vs. what I want/like it to be.
Reference to another similar answer here
Here are the instructions to edit/add images to GitHub Pages
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So I recently finished the HTML and CSS course at Codecademy, and I want to practice coding with html and css. My problem though, is that I don't know where to start. I've been searching around to try and find the information I need, but I can't find anything. I kind of feel like it's so obvious noone's ever needed to ask, but I don't know, so here I am, asking.
While searching for the answer to this question, I could only find sites that teach how to use html and css, like Codecademy, and sites that let you test html code like w3schools.com, but no sites that let you practice html and CSS.
Here's my question:
Are HTML and CSS created as .html and .css files on my computer?
You should ask new question for each of the questions you posted.
Where do I code html?
You can use any text editor. Try Sublime Text - download the app for your operating system and install.
Create a new file, saving it with the file exetension .html. Be sure you saved the file in an easy to find location - like you would with any word processing document or spreadsheet.
Open a browser (Safari, Chrome, Firefox).
Click and drag your new HTML file into the tab window.
Make some changes in your HTML file.
Refresh your browser tab.
You're now on your way to learning more about coding HTML in your local environment.
You can create HTML, CSS and JS files on your hard drive and simply open up the HTML file by double-clicking it (or opening it directly through the browser's file menu).
Typically these files are stored on an HTTP server that provides content when asked... but for your purposes to practice HTML and CSS, you can simply save the files on your hard-drive and open them from there.
Yes, they are (but CSS can be stored on a server as well, see 2.). You can then open the HTML file you're editing in any browser and see the output.
You can include CSS in your HTML file by using:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="path-to-your.css">
The path to CSS file can also lead to an online server, if the CSS file is stored there:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css">
The simplest way I can think to answer is:
Are CSS and HTML coded in a file on one's computer?
Yes
If so, how is the CSS connected to the HTML, and how are these connected to a website?
In the HTML file you specify which CSS files will be used in your page (I'm assuming you know what CSS files are for). The web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome, read the HTML code and produce the sites you see anywhere.
If you are only practicing basic HTML:
Open notepad (Windows+R, type "notepad", enter)
Write some code like the found here: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_basic.asp
Save your file with .html extension
Open it in your web browser by just double clicking the file
EDIT. Check this other example to see how to reference the CSS files http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_css.asp.
You only need to put your HTML file and CSS file in a folder in your computer, you don't need go to any site to practice this because HTML and CSS code is interpreted directly by your web browser.
Are CSS and HTML coded in a file on one's computer?
yes and no.
Basically CSS can be anywhere; your computer, your server, someone else's server, etc.
Your Chrome blocks some local sources for security reasons, but Firefox handles them pretty well. If you have a static website (that does not involve with any database), you can just create a directory and make html, css, and javascript files and open with Firefox to test.
Otherwise, get hosting services like godaddy, or get a server like Amazon Web Services and put them in there.
If so, how is the CSS connected to the HTML, and how are these connected to a website?
Typically, this is how people do.
<html>
<head>
<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<!-- your body... -->
</body>
</html>
If not, where are HTML and CSS coded for use on the web?
This was answered above.
CSS and HTML are not things that need to be installed on your computer, you just need to create a file with the .html extension, put some code in it and open it with a browser. The browser interprets it automatically, the same goes for CSS. To create HTML pages for practice, all you need to install is an IDE to edit your code.
Ok - everyone has to start somewhere and I'm going to assume you are a novice so if any of this information is too basic, please excuse it.
There are tiers to consider here....First let's break down what the languages do - I'm going to talk about additional languages because I see people already talking about servers and scripting to so I'm going to try and tie this all together for you. I started self taught and learned a lot of hard lessons so hopefully this add's a little bit of an advantage to the learning curve.
SERVER Think of a server as a computer. It run's slightly different software but the principles are the same. It's only job is to store code, interpret it and present it when called. A very popular server software that you'll find is apache so let's focus on this for now. Windows is not a server and can't be used as a server. However, it's possible to edit a server with windows and it's possible to run server software on top of windows just like any other application. You'll hear references to WAMP, LAMP, XAMPP and a bunch of other acronyms but for now you just need to know why they exist and what they do. A server is not required to write and produce html and css documents
HTML The primary purpose of HTML is to tell a web browser what it's looking at. You'll see a lot of HTML4 vs HTML5 and a ton of other arguments that won't make a lot of sense up front. The important thing to remember about HTML is that it is the framework for everything website related. A lot of people will argue that other languages are more important for one reason or another but without html, none of the other languages matter at all. Whatever you know about this is fine for now. Start small and work your way up.
CSS Is amazing. CSS3 is the current standard but there are still some things that are not cross browser compatible. That's a story for another day but the basics are the same everywhere. You define your classes, id's and elements then tell them how they're going to look. The more you get in to CSS the more you'll realize how amazing it really is. It's useful on a lot of levels and plays a big part in some scripting languages. The biggest thing to remember about CSS is that you should write as little as possible. The more rules you write, the more chance there is for overlapping and something you wrote 3 files ago on line 463 is going to dominate a new rule you just wrote. Try and write as much as possible in classes too so you can really make your code globally usable.
PHP/ASP These are just two of the more popular languages that are considered back end languages. When you're thinking of a website, break it down like this. Front end = Browser, Back end = server. Anything that PHP does is on the browser side. As an end user of a website, you'll rarely see it but it's a major component. This is relevant because as you grow, you'll wonder about trying your hand at a back end scripting language. That's great but that's when you're going to start getting in to servers and such so I'm sure you'll hear a lot about the benefits of it but for now, just stay focused on the basics until you're comfortable.
Javascript/jQuery Again, this is just two popular examples of the many scripting languages that are available on the client side(the browser). These languages can generally be viewed(and edited) by the end user. They are extremely useful for changing pages content without reloading the page and they can talk to the server languages as well. Again, get more comfortable first with your basics before branching out here but with the references you're bound to receive to these languages as you learn, it's helpful to know what they do and why.
Editor To edit html you can absolutely use any text editor. Word, notepad, notepad++, sublime-text, wordpad...literally anything that saves in a standard text format. As long as the extension is html, css, etc. The editors geared towards programming offer a lot of features and benefits as compared to the basic editors available in your windows/mac setup. Try your hand at a few different ones and see what suits your taste. You can write one file of html, download the programs and right click to open with each program to see the differences. Personally I recommend Notepad++ but to each his own.
Why is my answer so long? I know this is a majorly overkill answer to your question however I also know how hard it was for me to get started in this field without some very basic knowledge. This should be enough to get you off and running and hopefully help out when you encounter some unfamiliar territory. In the future, if you find yourself looking to get in to the server/scripting world, let me know and I'll pass along a write up I did on setting up xampp for windows.
Good luck!!
You need a text editor to practice your code I recommend downloading Sublime
Its free, in sublime under view you can change syntax which is the language you are programming in you can set it to html or css or any other language you desire.
The structure for "connecting" html and css is usually a simple folder like structure.
Create a folder called Website
In that folder you would have your html file(s) you can call it index.html
Also in that folder you would have sub folder(s) for your CSS and JS but since you are just working with CSS now create a folder named css. This is where you will save your css file that could be called something like style.css
Here is a more through guide on folder and directory structure.
Keep going with Codecademy and build your own projects in the browser.
I'd recommend taking a look at a good example. HTML5 Boilerplate is a good starting point and has some good practices for a project (in my opinoin). This may be a good reference for you to get a feeling of how the javascript and css files can be arranged and linked to. The website is static so you can open the index.html file with a browser to preview it. You can also make changes to the css and javascript files to see how this changes the index.html page.
https://html5boilerplate.com/
You're asking a very broad set of questions but hopefully there's quite a few good answers in here to point you in the right direction. Good luck!
It is technically possible to have both HTML and CSS in one file using the style tags:
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
<style>
h1 {
color: blue;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Test Text</h1>
</body>
</html>
However it is considered proper practice to use Cascading Style Sheets, which is probably what Code Academy used.
Checkout setting up a WAMP, LAMP, MAMP server depending on your platform (W) Windows, (M) Mac, (L) Linux.
http://www.wampserver.com/en/
https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/288158-easy-lamp-server-installation
https://www.mamp.info/en/
Then in your respective directory (html_public, Sites, wherever) you will have a local server environment where you can develop locally.
I use the Sites/ setup on a mac
css and javascript are usually linked in the head section of an html document.
You will need a editor - I recommend looking at Sublime Text or Atom.io
If you just want to play around for a while before attempting your own projects, you can build on sandboxes like http://codepen.io
Are CSS and HTML coded in a file on one's computer?
A: depends either you can create both css and html in one file or in different files. If you using lots of css code then everyone will suggest you to write them in different files and you can code them in someone's computer or on server.
If so, how is the CSS connected to the HTML, and how are these connected to a website?
A: you said that you have done html and course and you don't know who to add a css file to a html file. (Use Google sometimes) use this link you Wil get you answer. After coding you can test them using your web development tool if you are developing in a tool. Else use your web browser to test.
I suggest you to visit websites as much as you can an use chrome tool to see how that website is done (you can only find front end parts.)
I'm building a website using Wordpress on Localhost. I'm learning the structure of the webpage by editing the HTML and CSS using Google Developer Tools. I want to know which file I'm editing and where on the hard drive it is located.
I have edited the height and width of an element inside the circle marked but when I try to save the file, it asks me for a location to save which I'm unaware of. One the left is the HTML code, how can I locate the file with that HTML code?
how can I locate the file with that HTML code?
You can’t – not really, not from within your browser, because your browser doesn’t see individual “files”, it only sees the complete HTML source code of the one resource it requested, that might have been composed of lots of different files, plus functions that generate HTML code dynamically – so that actual piece of HTML code might not even be written as such within a file.
You might be able to identify different sections of the HTML document though – and with a little knowledge of the template structure and output logic of WordPress, you should be able to find out what the relevant file to look in might most likely be.
Another thing I’d suggest, is that you get yourself an IDE that allows you to search across all files in the whole project folder – and than look for certain class names, IDs etc. on the HTML element in question or near/above it. If you search for those, you might get lucky as well. (Although a lot of times those classes/IDs might be output dynamically as well, so you won’t find them inside of a template file as such.)
Especially with little knowledge of WP template structures, it might take some trial and error to find the piece of code and file you are actually looking for.
The Google Developer Tools is not a code editor, so whilst you can try out different options I'm not aware that you can save it, and if you can, I wouldn't say it's a good idea.
Wordpress uses PHP, a language which HTML code is embedded with PHP code. For example the code <a href='<?php echo(link1);?>'>Home</a> has had the href attribute embedded with a PHP variable. If you want to find the HTML code, look at the PHP files in your Wordpress directory, index.php is the landing page code.
One thing to bear in mind is that not all the HTML code will be included in one PHP file, it is usually included from several files, and much of the content will be in the wp-content directory, keep an eye out for the PHP include or require commands.
Google developer tool is just to check, once you are done with the editing, You have to copy your css code- and paste in your css file.
To get the css file look at the below image.
Hope your question got clarified!!
[This question is somewhat related to this question, but the answers are not...]
I have always used relative paths in HTML and scripting languages (PHP/ASP/JSP) to refer to EVERYTHING. I think the justification had to do with 'what if the website gets hosted in some weird subdirectory.' But my coworker has started throwing absolute paths into a PHP site we're working on. At first I was appalled, but then I thought, "why not? We'll never be hosted in a subdirectory." Nowadays, getting hosted in the root is not an uncommon necessity. Is it still necessary to "code" (markup, really) with relative paths? I think it's probably an antiquated practice by now.
Definitely. You never know where your code is going to end up, or for what purpose.
Suppose you build a new version of a site, but to help your users transition, you move the old version to a "/classic" subdirectory. The same often happens the other way around where sites will host a beta version of the new redesign in a "/new" directory.
Building it properly the first time shouldn't be a hassle, and you'll thank yourself for it one day.
Well, it's probably not the end of the world but it's building in a dependency that you don't need.
If for example you ever want to put a number of versions in subdirectories in a test harness, or subdirectories help to work around some other issue (such as combining this with some other app that insists on being in the root), you may find it harder.
Sure, you can probably always work around it in some other way - but the problem is you now have to.
Edit: Killed my opening paragraph as it was based on a miss-interpretation of the referenced article.
I always use an absolute path for the following reasons:
Includes:
1. When you use a templating system, you never know the directory structure that a document is going to have when it's calling the include.
2. If documents are going to be moved around, you can be pretty sure it's going to be the documents themselves rather than the includes. If it is the includes, then they're being moved my someone who knows what going on. Added to this, if it is someone not familiar with absolute/relative path, they'll understand absolute a lot better than relative.
css: (as well as the items above)
1. When editing with Web Developer, relative backgrounds disappear when your style sheet isn't in the same directory as the doc.
2. By spec, when you put something on the 'Net, it should be there for the duration. When I'm building something new, I build it in a new folder, or with a new file name and leave all the old docs alone.
If you're using dynamically-generated pages, dynamically generate your URLs. For example, with JSTL use <c:url>. Not only does this allow you to move your pages in the future, it also ensures that your URLs will be properly escaped (tell the truth: how often do you build query strings with &? if you want the W3C validator to accept them, you need to).
For my personal website, which uses PHP to build pages, I've created several methods: insertPageRef(), insertCodeRef(), and so on, that create valid HREFs. As a result, I don't hesitate to re-arrange my site structure as it evolves.
The case of being moved to a subdirectory is fairly unusual, I'd say. Far more usual is being hosted on different servers: you create your site for testing on "dev.yourcompany.com" then go live by moving it to "www.yourcompany.com". In that case, you need to use relative links for obvious reasons.