I set up just a static page on my computer using SASS for the styles, and used a variable called $productColor throughout the styles. It's used for a bunch of different stuff like banner background colors, header colors, and link colors.
Now I moved the page to our server, on ExpressionEngine. I would like to have an ExpressionEngine field, so for each entry, a different color can be chosen, and that color will appear on the page.
Now I don't really know how to go about this. I don't even know how or if I can put a sass file on my server and get it automatically compiled into a css file. Anyways, any suggestions?
just define all colors in classes, and have a dropdown with the class names.
then in your template do something like this
{exp:channel:entries channel="my_channel"}
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body class="{my_chosen_color}">
---
</body>
</html>
{/exp:channel:entries}
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On my laravel app, I'm using a forum package called "chatter".
This forum is injected into my master layout, so it looks like this:
nav bar
chatter package
footer
It's injected into a container called <div id="chatter">, and its styles are found in the style sheet chatter.css, which is separate from my main sheet.
The problem is, some of the styles in this sheet are conflicting with my nav and footer. Furthermore, some of the styles in my main sheet are affecting the forum (albeit minimally, so I don't mind making the changes manually).
I can't change the markup, but I can edit the styles.
So how could I make it so that all the styles found in chatter.css ONLY apply to what's inside of <div id="chatter">?
Add #chatter to every style in chatter.css like this
#chatter table{...}
#chatter tr{...}
#chatter td{...}
etc.
If style is for level above the chatter div then add after like this:
html #chatter{..}
body #chatter div{...}
You will have to namespace your CSS as user Nawed Khan pointed out but there is a much simpler way to do that than changing each of your styles manually. This method uses less to handle it for you.
Drop this in a file called chatter.less.
#chatter {
#import (less) 'chatter.css';
}
Then you need to include it on your page...
<link rel="stylesheet/less" type="text/css" href="chatter.less" >
Then you need to include less.js AFTER you've included your .less file.
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/less.js/2.7.2/less.min.js"></script>
In your .less file you might have to mess with the path to chatter.css, I believe it's going to be relative to whatever file you are including the .less file on.
I have a web app that needs to display pages whose CSS values are set via a form. To be clear: not the CSS parameters, just their values are user-defined.
I'm using a framework (jquery mobile). My css file is about 700 lines (the sass file is a little longer but full of comments and variables for colors, margins, etc). There are about a dozen variables inteded to be defined by the user (eg $pageBackgroundColor, $borderWidth, $spanColor), but each variable is used several times in the sass file.
Let's say I now have these dozen variables safely stored in my database, and a user requests a page. How do I provide the necessary CSS?
I could:
compile a minified css file at the time of form submission and link
it when a page is requested (downside: I'm likely to have several thousand CSS files sitting on my server)
compile a minified css text string and dump it between two <style> tags in the <head> (downside: ugliness, no caching, and request handling time increases)
Are there any other options? I looked at one site that does custom visuals for each user and they went for a separate CSS file for each person.
I'm using a Django+Postgres backend, if it's relevant.
You could move the style declarations in which these variables are used to inline CSS, in the <head>. Additionally, you could do this with just a few styles, but it does require you to add more classes to your HTML:
<style type="text/css">
.user-background-color {
background-color: #abc123;
}
.user-color {
color: #abc123;
}
.user-border-color {
border-color: #abc123;
}
</style>
Then your HTML gets additional classes:
<div class="style-1 style-2 user-border-color"></div>
So I went the giant composite heredoc external file route, with the file name saved in the db. It works well enough, but is obviously not fun to edit.
I am working on a presentation website that has 7 HTML pages. Is it more efficient to have only one big HTML file than 7 smaller ones?
The reason I'm asking this is because the header, footer and 20% of the body are the same for all pages. The parts that are different have only lists, p and h tags.
Thanks!
The performance difference is almost certainly negligible, but by having one html file instead of the seven, you get a smoother ux by changing only what's different with javascript (no page refresh, no flicker).
If you want to stick to vanilla js or jquery, put all the html in one file and toggle the elements' css display properties.
A cleaner and easier way, though, is to use a framework like Angular. That way you can break the dynamic elements into partials, and you'll end up with eight clean, concise html pages (total html = one page option), and need no javascript at all. The best implementation depends on your specifics, a simple one might look something like:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html ng-app>
...
<body ng-init="partial = 'initial.html'>
<!-- header, whatever part of that 20% -->
<!-- put dynamic elements in separate html files (no html tags or anything, just the divs or whatever -->
<a ng-click="partial = '/path/something.html'">something</a>
<a ng-click="partial = '/path/whatever.html'">whatever</a>
...
<div ng-include="partial">
<!-- rest of that 20%, footer -->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.3.15/angular.min.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
I like Angular a lot. It's incredibly powerful, yet you can use it for super small things like this with just one script tag. (If you want the back/forward buttons to work, look into ng-route.) Either way, your presentation will be a lot more impressive if you don't use seven static html files. Cheers
The answer is no, it is not efficient to have only one big HTML file compared to 7 smaller files. For if you have many smaller files, let's say for example you have 1 file for header, 1 file for footer, 1 file for body and others. By that you could just easily modify and trace your code by looking on the file on what you want to modify and not by looking on the whole HTML file.
I am making help content documentation for an already made software (the kind of which opens in every software when you press F1 or navigate to the Help section in the menu bar). I am using simple html/CSS/js pages to do so.
There is a ton of the same text descriptions of various software properties that appear in more than one page. The idea is to make a single text source file, where all the text descriptions are located and then use some sort of referencing to that specific text section wherever necessary.
Kind of a similar to using a CSS stylesheet to apply styles over all of the pages, only this handles text instead of styles. This way I would be able to change text in only one file and it would apply everywhere it is used.
I ran across the html SSI method, but this only includes the entire html page and not just a specific text section the way I would like to. I would strongly avoid using different file for each text section.
Can anyone please point me into the right direction here?
I think that you can make a JavaScript function that contains the common texts and use this functions in your code whenever you need them, for this the JavaScript that you create should be an external file and you can reference it in every html page you need it.
For example, you can have one function that returns "Hello World" and set this to a "p" element with the id="title". So in every page where you have an element with the id title you can call your JavaScript function to set its text to "Hello World". Use this link to find out more about this topic:
http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_htmldom_html.asp
UPDATE: I did a little test, i created the following JavaScript:
function helloTitle(){
var text = "Hello World!";
document.getElementById("title").innerHTML = text;
}
And referenced it in some HTML pages like this:
<script src="commonText.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
After that i only need to call the function in the element i want it to modify:
<p id="title"><script>helloTitle();</script></p>
This is a solution if you are only using JS, CSS and HTML. There should be other ways to achieve this.
Hope this information could help you!
I figured out how to do it a little more comforatbly on a large scale using the html command https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp
in your main html file you do:
<p> <iframe src="Text.html" width="100%" height="300" style="border:1px solid black;"> </p>
and then with some basic html formating insert whatever text u want
<html>
<body>
hmm idk what i should put here. Test
</body>
</html>
there will also be some css formatting needing to be done before it look perfect, but if you want to make multi line blocks I think this is the easiest way to.
Hi I wanna do something really simple: a multi-level template system using only HTML and JS.
I would have like to do that with HTML only, I tried with object and embed tags but I can't make it work properly (embed doesn't display and object generates a new HTML document with and , plus it's pretty ugly).
So, next I tried handlebars.js but I didn't manage to use it to put HTML from a file into another one.
I just want to separate the distinct components of my page into different HTML-like documents (but not full HTML-valid documents, just one with the header only, one with the navigation menu only, and so on). Then on "level 2" I would have a "structure" HTML-body document which would arrange the previous elements as I want (one structure could have a menu on the left, content on the right and a footer, another would have menu on top, full-size content and a header, etc. like the different themes of a CMS only much simpler). Then on "level 3" finally, my "real" pages would use a "structure" template and then I guess I should use something like handlebars to pass content, titles etc. to level 2 and again to level 1.
So, is there any easy way to do this? Without having to rewrite a whole JS library :P And if you think handlebars.js would suit my needs (but I really don't need dynamic parts, just a title and a content for each page, maybe something to handle the current position on the website to manage menus and breadcrumb), could you please tell me how to use it to include HTML from one file to another?
Thank you very much :)
EDIT
Well after a little bit of struggling, I dit it really easily with only jQuery. I'm really not familiar with javascript (but I'm still a little ashamed) here is the way to go :
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("body").load("structure.html", function() {
$("nav").load("nav.html");
$("section").load("section.html", function() {
$("section hgroup h1")[0].innerHTML = document.title;
});
$("footer").load("footer.html");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
with structure.html containing just empty tags in the order you want them like this:
and section, nav and footer.html contining what should be inside the respective tags.
Wouldn't it be easier to simply use a couple iframes? Something like:
<html>
<body>
<iframe src="nav.html"/>
<iframe src="content.html"/>
</body>
</html>
Or am I misunderstanding your question?