is there some other way to edit or change some text or pictures on my website using it's interface or not from the HTML file, cause my client is wondering on how can day update the "Events" Box(they don't know how to use HTML) i'm really new at this and open to any suggestions, thank you
It depends on what you are using. if you are using a CMS based program that would be possible.
you cannot edit a page without opening its files right of the browser without any external help.
It seems that you want to edit the content of your website. Yes, its possible without opening any file using your CMS Dashboard. If the content is static then you have to open the php/html file.
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Background:
I need to allow users to create web pages for various products, with each page having a standard overall appearance. So basically, I will have a template, and based on the input data I need the HTML page to be generated for each product. The input data will be submitted via a web form, following which the data should be merged with the template to produce the output.
I initially considered using a pure templating approach such as Nunjucks, but moved to ReactJS as I have prior experience with the latter.
Problem:
Once I display the output page (by adding the user input to the template file with placeholders), I am getting the desired output page displayed in the browser. But how can I now obtain the HTML code for this specific page?
When I tried to view the source code of the page, I see the contents of 'public/index.html' stating:
This HTML file is a template.
If you open it directly in the browser, you will see an empty page.
Expectedly, the same happens when I try to save (Save As...) the html page via the browser. I understand why the above happens.
But I cannot find a solution to my requirement. Can anyone tell me how I can download/save the static source code for the output page displayed on the browser.
I have read possible solutions such as installing 'React/Redux Development Extension' etc... but these would not work as a solution for external users (who cannot be expected to install these extensions to use my tool). I need a way to do this on production environment.
p.s. Having read the "background" info of my task, do let me know if you can think of any better ways of approaching this.
Edit note:
My app is currently actually just a single page, that accepts user data via a form and displays the output (in a full screen dialog). I don't wish to have these output pages 'published' on the website, and these are simply to be saved/downloaded for internal use. So simply being able to get the "source code" for the dislayed view/page on the browser and saving this to a file would solve my problem. But I am not sure if there is a way to do this?
Its recommended that you use a well-known site generator such as Gatsby or Next for your static sites since "npx create-react-app my-app" is for single page apps.
(ref: https://reactjs.org/docs/create-a-new-react-app.html#recommended-toolchains)
If I'm understanding correctly, you need to generate a new page link for each user. Each of your users will have their own link (http/https) to share with their users.
For example, a scheduling tool will need each user to create their own "booking page", which is a generated link (could be on your domain --> www.yourdomain.com/bookinguser1).
You'll need user profiles to store each user's custom page, a database, and such. If you're not comfortable, I'll use something like an e-commerce tool that will do it for you.
You can turn on the debugger (f12) and go to "Elements"
Then right-click on the HTML tag and press edit as HTML
And then copy everything (ctrl + a)
Just as an experiment - I have taken the page source from a webpage I am viewing and copied it into a file on my desktop. When I try to open this file in my browser, I get a jumbled mess with no formatting.
What could the original page have that my copy does not?
Copying the files from original site through Viewsourcepage, you will not get the CSS and JavaScript files. Usually we call CSS and JavaScript from external source so that is the thing you are facing problem here
My best suggestion is if you want to copy the files from original website use Httracker. Download httrack from the website, Install it and use
Sounds like you're missing the stylesheets as well. Stylesheets include the styling (formatting) for the html.
There are probably CSS and/or JS files that are loaded dynamically from where ever you copied the HTML from. But they are probably relative locations, and you didn't copy those files too.
Static web pages will work when you do this. Their content do not change.
A lot of pages nowadays are dynamic and the source changes based on the client side JS code or values from the backend.
There could also be frameworks and a lot of dependancies for that particular page.
Instead of copy/paste manually, you can try some websitedownloader eg. it's an online one https://websitedownloader.io/
I have been looking for a WYSIWYG editor to add into my own built CMS. I have come accross Nicedit, which is fantastic however, i cannot seem to upload an image and resize it.
Does anyone have any idea how i can do this?
Don't forget to add this code on your page, without it you will not be able to do so
Also you have to change the configuration of the editor and make it upload to a specific location on your server or other remote servers
http://wiki.nicedit.com/w/page/515/Configuration%20Options
I have this theme http://themes.two2twelve.com/site/fluidapp/light/ installed on my website running wordpress. I converted the template to a wordpress theme by following the steps here: http://thethemefoundry.com/blog/html-wordpress/ and its all working fine.
However, I have now been given the crazy task to integrate a "Back button" function in it.
What they want is to have some sort of Back button functionality (or the browser one) so when they open Team and they press Back - they go back to Home. The template is basically one-paged, you can see so in the source code.
One way I can see this happening is if I make every page a different .php file, upload them to my theme folder and then just hyperlink them. like www.yoursite.com/team.php
Another possible way (I think) would be to create a page.php template file and then post the pages using wordpress. Question: How do I tell wordpress to use page.php as the page template file?
Can you think of another way to integrate this functionality? Thanks a lot in advance.
If it always is going to return the user to the startpage you could just use the home_url(); function.
Back
If you got more advance structure and you want the button to just redirect the user back one page, you should use javascript.
Back
page.php is the default template for wordpress pages. So if no other is selected in admin, page.php will be used.
If you're using javascript to load the new content, you could use javascript pushState()and popState() to log the stuff to new url's, and it gets added to the browser history. Here's an example.
where can I find elegant looking Wordpress (or not Wordpress, but similar style) themes in plain HTML/CSS format, without all the php?
thanks.
View the page source of the theme preview page in your browser. Save the code.
Easy for one page. Difficult for many pages.
You need to see in browser each page you want to get the HTML/CSS.
Firefox Menu > View > View Source
IE Menu > View > Source
A good way not only to save but to study the design and HTML/CSS structure,
use FireBug, Firefox addon. I am very sure it save lots of time and you will love it.
I'm not sure what you mean in your question.
If you mean, "Are there themes for Wordpress that don't require php?" then the answer is no. However, you don't actually need to know php in order to use these themes. You can just load them and then alter only the CSS.
If you mean "How can I adapt a Wordpress theme for a non-Wordpress site?" then you'll have to do this yourself, manually. First make sure you are using Firefox and install Firebug. Go to a site that has the theme that you want and then open up Firebug.
Under the HTML tab you'll be able to see the static HTML of the page, after it has been processed by the backend PHP. Just click "Edit" and then copy and paste everything in there into a new file. Then click the "CSS" tab and go through each style sheet, again clicking on Edit in order to copy and paste everything into new files, 1 for each sheet. Then stick all of the files into a folder and edit the header of the html file to make sure the external stylesheet links are pointing to the stylesheets you have created. Open it up in a browser and it should look just as you want it to.