Posted by SpaceGirl on 07/25/05 00:12

Ken in Melbourne Australia wrote:
> SpaceGirl wrote:
>
>>> I have a page that has some radio buttons on it
>
> ...
>
>>> I realize this would be trivial by using a script but I'd like to do
>>> it without a script (to accomodate "scriptless" users).
>>>
>>> Is there any way to do this?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>
>>
>> No it cannot be done. Anything that changes the content cannot be done
>> without *some* sort of scripting
>
> ...
>
>> HTML is "dumb". Once it is rendered that's it. You can do anything
>> else to it without scripting as it's just a page full of text codes in
>> reality.
>
>
> Cannot be done??? Emmm!! I'm a great believer in never saying cannot.
>

Can you turn my can of Coke into a car? No. It can't be done.

> If we look at the question it says that we are trying to accommodate
> "scriptless" users. Therefore we can assume that the meaning of script
> is script running on the client. Now this may not be the greatest as it
> means some delays but couldn't you do it with a program on the Server.

Yes you could do it at the server, but that's not what I thought he was
asking. He suggested he wanted a scriptless solution. Even if you do it
at the server, a script is being run... albeit on the server :p

> User presses what looks like a radio button. This activates form
> output to the server program. Server program resends page with the text
> field updated.

Yes that would be the way to do it. Use an image of a radio button so
that it "pretends" to be a radio, when really it is a submit button. It
causes the whole thing to be posted to the server and you can then send
the whole back again to the client with the text modified.

<snip>

> I haven't tried any of this so maybe there are problems here that I
> don't know about. Can anyone tell me if this would work or if there is
> a problem with it. Better still, tell me if you actually get it going!

I've done this on a few sites to fake UI elements; it can work really weel.

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