text box data loaded from external css

Bad Inferno · #1 (**permalink**) 09-07-2008, 12:11 AM

Is it posbile to declare an id # in an external CSS which contains text that I want to display in a text box. ?

rob

curtiss · #2 (**permalink**) 09-07-2008, 10:48 AM

No, not really. CSS is intended to control the appearance of a page. It has nothing to do with the content. There are some tricks you can use to add a small bit of content to various items, but implementation within browsers is still very spotty (and not supported at all within IE, yet).

It sounds to me as though you are actually looking for something that you would need to use either Javascript or a server-side script (like PHP, .NET, perl, etc.) to do.

Bad Inferno · #3 (**permalink**) 09-09-2008, 05:44 AM

I understand CSS is not the answer now... However a work around which I got seems to achieve what I was looking for.. Thanks Scott

// Begin Javascript Include file owValues.js/////////////////////////////
device1 = new Object;
device1.parameter1 = 25;
device1.parameter2 = "some owfs read value";
device1.parameter3 = "some owfs read value";

device2 = new Object;
device2.parameter1 = 59;

device3 = new Object;
device3.parameter1 = 63;
// End Javascript Include file owValues.js/////////////////////////////

To output the owfs read values in your HTML, you'd do something like:

// Begin HTML file display.htm/////////////////////////////
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT language="javascript" src="owValues.js"></SCRIPT>

</HEAD>
<BODY>

<h3>Here are the owfs values</h3>

<SCRIPT language="javascript">
document.write('<p>Device1 Temp: ' + device1.parameter1 + '</p>');
document.write('<p>Device2 Temp: ' + device2.parameter1 + '</p>');
</SCRIPT>
<DIV> some more web content goes here. You can output OWFS data from your include file anywhere you like.</DIV>
<DIV>The memory pages of device1 contents:
<B>
<SCRIPT language="javascript">
document.write(device1.parameter2);
</SCRIPT>
</B>
</DIV>
</BODY>
</HTML>
// End HTML file display.htm/////////////////////////////