Is there a way to Bookmark using HTML/CSS? I have been developing this mobile application in HTML and want to be able to give the option to bookmark certain pages to the users. Is there a way to do this in HTML?
There isn't a way in pure HTML (since it's just a markup language) or CSS (this just define the style), since bookmarking is an action done exclusively by the browser without iteration with the web page. I'm aware that JavaScript can do it.
I don't think so, as HTML is only a markup language, not supposed to interfere in browser's data or configuration. In case JavaScript is also an option for you, please refer to this answer.
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I would like to have different versions of a HTML text displayed by clicking on a button (without using javascript).
The idea is to select different languages with a button/hyperlink etc. that controls what HTML text to display. I know this works with javascript, but unfortunately the webpage I want to post my multilanguage texts on does not support javascript. The webpage I am talking about is geocaching.com, so maybe anyone has seen or done such a multilanguage listing or knows how to do this under the restrictions posed there.
Any idea how to select/display distinct texts in plain HTML? Thanks for any solution, pointers or references.
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M.
Without using Javascript or Jquery I think your only option left would be to make the buttons act like links and push forward a variable and to use server side scripting like php or asp to write a specific style inside the page for the elements in question...
If you are using .net, you can have multiple 'href' calls in your html to your controllers actions that would give you your desired output. Hope its something that your looking for.
I'm trying to make a page that shows how to enable JavaScript in various browsers.
The users that view the page will not have JavaScript enabled, so I can't use JavaScript to detect the browser.
How can I detect the browser without using JavaScript, PHP or ASP.NET?
The idea I have in my head is that the page will show the appropriate instructions to enable JavaScript in the user's browsers with pictures and text.
Sorry for the bad english.
Thanks!
EDIT: Is it a bad idea to use conditional comments? Why not?
You can't. You need something on the back end to read the user agent.
AFAIK, there's no way, except asking the user:
If you're using Internet Explorer (nice image of the IE logo): click here;
If you're using Firefox (nice image of the Firefox logo): click here;
Your question doesn't leave much room for providing an answer, but I'll give it a shot:
You can use a <noscript> block to provide page content which will only be visible when JavaScript is disabled.
Alternately, you can also use a JavaScript onLoad method to remove an ordinary <div> or similar element from the page when JavaScript is enabled.
The <noscript> element is generally preferred, as it will simply not appear on the page if JavaScript is already enabled.
As far as detecting which browser they're using, you need some technology on the back-end which is capable of parsing the request headers that the browser sends. This can technically be done by the web server itself using server-side include and some clever rewrite rules, but it is actually harder that way than to just learn to use a server-side scripting language.
If you're doing this for a reason (i.e., you're using an embedded webserver with little to no free space), your best option if you only want to provide a static page (in other words, just an HTML file) is to have the page content include a <noscript> block at the top, and an invisible block at the bottom (<div> with hidden), then enable the hidden div on page load via JavaScript.
Include two or three blocks with <a> anchor tags which explain how to enable JavaScript in EACH browser, and have the user click the logo that looks more familiar (all inside your <noscript> block).
That being said, server-side scripting is easy to use, easy to set up, and completely worth learning. It's quite a bit easier and more predictable than doing everything with JavaScript.
Is there a way to add a Javascript segment to each page in my website via CSS?
I am looking to add some Javascript tracking code (for my own benefit (using Google Analytics)) before the closing </head> tag on every page.
The simple question is: is there a way to add code to the HTML on every page of my website between the <head> and </head> tags using CSS to dynamically insert it (as opposed to going through and updating every page manually)?
Thank you,
Mick
No, CSS is a collection of styles to apply to elements (which can handle alternating states of controls, such as :hover), but isn't functional in the way you desire.
However, it seems to me that, if you can reference a CSS file globally, then you could simply place your Javascript in a separate file and reference that in each of your pages with a <script> tag (similar to how you would do with CSS files.)
Furthermore, if you're using a framework such as ASP.NET, then you can use master pages as templates from which relevant pages derive, reducing redundancy of this sort of thing.
Is there a way to add a Javascript segment to each page in my website via CSS?
No. Use a template language (e.g. TT) or include system (e.g. SSI) if you want common HTML across pages.
Nope, you can't add javascript through css. These are different techniques, one for changing the look of your website (css) and one for adding functionality to it (javascript). There is no way to add javascript through css-code.
As all the other answers stated: No, in general not.
Only MS IE offers such a solution, using the behavior-property.
I currently use this for an hover-anything-script for IE6 (included inside a conditional comment), which allows to add the CSS-:hover-selector to any HTML-element:
body {
behavior: url(/js/csshover.htc); }
The csshover.htc is from Peter Nederlof (LGPL).
See also: MSDN HTC Reference
Others have already noted that it's impossible. It seems that your site is static html only. Then you could write a little script that would prepend a link to javascript file before
I am making a website that is styled using CSS, in two DIVs. One 'Header' DIV which is always the same, and a 'Content' DIV that changes.
In my CSS file, is it possible to write the HTML with all the links that stay in the header, so I just need to call (or similar) on every page, instead of having to write out my header content every time? Would also help in editing only one source, as I often leave out pages by mistake.
I don't want to use frames, so looking for an alternative.
Thanks,
Brett
Depending on the server and server side languages supported, this can be done.
Some servers will let you use Server Side Includes, for example. With others you could specify "block" of HTML for a header (for instance) that will be part of a site wide template.
What is not possible it to achieve this with purely CSS and HTML.
This is why you usually have some server side code running, which will insert the common header e.g. php include, SSI or other templating framework. If that's not an option, you could write JavaScript which writes out your header each time to a specific DIV. Although I don't think that's great from an SEO perspective.
The usual options for doing this client-side are an iframe, or some javascript that does DOM to add content (perhaps loaded from an external file). Or some javascript that creates an iframe. Or an iframe that creates some javascript. Some permutation of those odious techniques.
CSS does have the content property, but i think it's limited to plain text. I don't know if you can use it to pull in HTML, either using a string or URI.
As others have mentioned, the most common approach is to do it server-side. You can do this bottom-up with includes, or top-down with things like Tiles and SiteMesh.
CSS can't help you to do this.
You can make ajax loading of content. You can make one index.html and lot of 'content' files (about.html, contacts.html, etc). And in index.html you can load another .html in content-div (for example with jQuery method .load())
Another way - you can make little templating engine in php (or another server-side language)
It isn't possible to achieve that using CSS, because CSS can't handle any events, it's simply a "refrence" for the browser to know how to style your web-page, it's done, however, using AJAX.
I suggest you to take a look on jQuery lib, it'll speed up the process tremendously, however - the main disadvantage is that the search crawlers won't be able to index your page correctly, so it'll be bad by an SEO perspective.
It's possible, if you have the time, to make an index-able version and an AJAX one, that's what we did for a mobile project here.
jQuery AJAX API
Is there a way of including HTML pages without needing any javascript or server-side code, only HTML.
Basically I can't be sure if the server supports server side includes. I don't want to use javascript and I don't want to use any PHP or other server side functionality.
Is there any way to do this. At the moment I suspect not, but would be very interested if it were possible.
Use some frames in your page
HTML frames allow authors to present
documents in multiple views, which may
be independent windows or subwindows.
<iframe></iframe> is the tag you need to include inline floating frames.
Quick tip with iframes: Be sure you open and close the tag explicitly, if not some browsers will complain
You can use framesets.
HTML imports, part of HTML Components, aims to do exactly this.
HTML5rocks offers a great tutorial to get started with HTML imports.
According to can I use, only Chrome is supporting HTML imports today.