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Eduardo
Eduardo

Reputation: 7141

Use HTML documents like stylesheets

i'm making a website for someone who is not particularly well acquainted with html and i want them to be able to edit the content of their webpage just from a blank text/html file (or easier method), i'm wondering if there is anyway i can just have a text document but save it as a html which i could load within <p></p> tags

for example: maindocument.html

<html>
<body>
<p id="text">....[someway of getting text from textdocument.html (or .txt)]....</p>
</body>
</html>

textdocument.html (or.txt)

"text to go within p tags"

you can do this with css style sheets and scripts so is there a way to do this with basic html?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 49

Answers (3)

Josh Dredge
Josh Dredge

Reputation: 107

If the web server is running Apache you could use SSI. The files will need to be in .shtm or .shtml format.

Then all you do is

<p>
    <!--#include virtual="paragraphs.txt" -->
</p>

I'd usually just use PHP includes though.

Upvotes: 2

nullability
nullability

Reputation: 10675

The simplest way is to use server-side includes if they are available on your server: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/ssi.html

Otherwise you might consider using a scripting language like PHP and include the file, like:

<?php include("textdocument.html"); ?>

Upvotes: 0

casraf
casraf

Reputation: 21694

If a .txt file is enough, I guess you could use an iframe to load it:

<iframe src="myfile.txt"></iframe>

But if you want rich editing, I'd suggest implementing a WYSIWYG editor and saving it somehow.

Upvotes: 0

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