In a .txt file, I can hold down the "Option" button and select one or more columns.
Is there an equivalent for grabbing column information on a web page?
I am currently copying-and-pasting the website material into a .txt file, and then started to wonder if that step could be eliminated.
I'm not sure if I understand the question, but maybe this information will help anyways.
If you are just looking for a client tool, the following should be helpful (in chrome): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/columncopy/lapbbfoohlcmlbdaakldmmallcbcbpjb
If you are looking to add a copy button to a web page that will copy text maybe the following will help How to create "Copy" button?
Good luck!
If it's data in an HTML <table> you can copy it and paste it into an Excel file. That should make it a lot easier to grab by columns.
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So I have made a PirateBox, but I wish to make edits to the HTML file - to give more functionality and a new look to the webpage. I am confident that I can edit it - but I can't find it. I have looked online and on this site for answers, to no avail.
An additional inquiry: Do I need to re-flash the router / firmware once I edit the HTML file? This question really isn't too much of a concern at this point, though.
Thanks to all that can help me out!
So I found a great guide to personalize the PirateBox - including the HTML file. Here is the page.
To quote the page:
Change the index.html page
I don’t really like the index.html page as it does not show the files available, more over the english language is not adapted of every one, so I prefer a frame organization mixing files, local text and chat area.
The index.html file can be changed by replacing it: create a new one and copy it to the following place: /opt/piratebox/www/index.html
It also includes a guide to change the SSID and the Chat settings.
I want to put a link on html which downloads a file with different filename from original. So for example there is this PNG file:
https://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo11w.png
I would like to put it into html so that when you click to download it, it saves not as "logo11w.png" (which is the original name) but as another name, for example: "Google Logo.png"
I actually had saved the code to do this on my computer and now i have lost access to it and can't seem to find it on google, i tried several search queries. However, I remember it was a pretty short html code (1 line) however I just want to make this possible no matter if you guys give me another code, all that matters is that it works. Thanks!
Faced the same problem today and stumbled upon your question. Here's what I found:
Download logo
You can also achieve the same through javascript, here's the link:
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_anchor_download.asp
I'm using UIWebView to display data from my organization data (publicize and legal), however, for instance, I would only want to pull specific data from the html file rather than pulling the whole URL. e.g. I want to pull the "News" section of the html and I want the user to only stay in that page, not enabling them to go into other parts of the website (e.g. home page, contact us) and allowing them to view the PDF article on the HTML file.
I've asked around and read up on DOM and screen scraping, but it seem that the data pulled are stored in a database instead.
Is there any way that I can pull just the HTML "News" section with the PDF URL into my customized HTML file and that it will be updated live (maybe every 30second it will refresh and pull information from the website so that the content and list of PDF are up to date)(e.g. added in 3new article into the main website, my customize HTML file will also refresh and pull information from website and update my article list)
If anyone can point to me a specific method that allow HTML to HTML data passing (live), that will be great and I can go do more research on it. Currently very lost and confuse as it is my first time doing this. Any help/feedback will be very much appreciated :)
EDIT: For example, google map or google search. I don't want to use the whole google webpage, just taking the important thing that i want like the search result or map display.
This will involve quite a lot of learning on your part - you'll have to learn HTML / the DOM / JavaScript and iOS/UIWebVIew.
Lets leave the live refresh part for now, I'll post another answer or edit to that later on.
That's not going to easy either (check out my earlier posting today on background execution issues that will affect you, unless the update is only to take place in the foreground
iOS Run Code Once a Day)
You will have to do something like this. And note that I've never tried this, nor seen posting of people who have on here, but in theory it should work, but there will be a lot of learning as I've said, and lots of trial and error. Its a big task when you're not familiar with these things.
1) Download the html page and load it in a UIWebView, but that UIWebView is hidden so the user's can't see it.
2) When the page has loaded its dom will be accessable.
3) You can use Javascript to access the DOM and look for the parts you want.
How you inject and run the Javascript in UIWebView can be answered in a separate question (this answer will get too long if all the exact details are included).
4) Remove the parts of the dom you are not interested in. Or use use events to make only those parts you are interested in appear, jQuery can probably help here.
5) Display the UIWebView
Alternatively the HTML could be saved to a file and string parsing could be used to search for the bits you are looking for and create a new text html file from it. I think this would get very messy, better to take advantage of the fact that UIWebView will parse the HTML page and create the dom for you.
What I'm trying to do is to save the changes I make to CSS and HTML on different sites with Firebug.
Just to be clear, I don't expect Firebug to upload the changes to the server via FTP or anything. I just want to save the changes locally, so only I will be able to see them.
For example I've seen a few Firefox/Chrome extensions that add a download button under every video on Youtube, so I know it's possible to do that somehow.
If you have a different way to achieve what I'm trying to do, I'll be glad to hear about it.
(It doesn't have to be with Firebug.)
Thanks in advance!
If you don't mind using Web Developer Toolbar it's easy to save changes made to the DOM (and CSS).
When you install the toolbar, you'll get a "View Source" menu, click on that and choose "View generated source". Then just copy and paste that into a .html file.
You did not say if you alter your HTML or CSS, if CSS, FireFile is a very good addon for this.
Edit, with some Googling, i found FireDiff, which states that it can export changes made in Firebug, i have not tested it bit it's worth checking out.
You could try using Greasemonkey.
It has support for adding custom scripts that are run whenever you load a page (linked to which pages it should load on) and that can make changes to the page dynamically.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
The http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ web developer toolbar will let you add a user style sheet to a site which should achieve your goals.
This may or may not be exactly what you're asking for, but you can download the extension FireDiff in order to save changes made with FireBug. I made a little tutorial on how to do it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4OmZLX2zd4
I have a somewhat simlar use-case that I solved differently. I'm not sure if it is what you are looking for or not. I'll describe the behavior and if that is helpful I'll explain exactly how I implemented it.
I changed the code that execute when you click "Run" (or Ctrl+Enter) to check to see if the first line of the code is a hard-coded string //LoadFromFile:<file path>. If it is, and the file exists then I pull the file off of the local file system and run it instead of executing the code in the console window. This way I can use an external text editor to write code.
In Word 2003 one can save as WEB PAGE and get document translatted into HTML coding.
You can use VIEW and see SOURCE CODE to get the HTML coding for that file.
In Word 2007 you can save as web page but I can't find how you VIEW the source code that was created with it.
What you need to do is right-click on the file and select Open With... and use notepad to view the HTML.
Shield your eyes; it's ugly, ugly code.
EDIT: To alleviate some of the bloat and make things more legible, I suggest http://textism.com/wordcleaner/ - I've had pretty good results with it in the past, but it only works for files up to 20kb.
For SO bonus points, check out Jeff's C# code here: Cleaning Word's Nasty HTML.
You can also change the extension of the .docx to zip, then view the contents. A .docx file is actually a zip file with several .xml files inside... but that probably won't give you what you're looking for.
If you've only got a simple HTML page (I can't imagine it being much more than that if it was wrote in Word) you can just view the source in your browser.