Hello experts,
I want to describe a project design and then ask some questions at the end.
There is no code in this discussion, just symbols to illustrate an idea.
Let S stand for a screen or form. I want to capture data as answers to questions presented to a user thru a series of screens. Since there are many user questions, I will ask them thru a series of screens. Thus, let
S1, S2, S3, ... Sn
stand for all the screens needed to ask the questions and capture the user's answers.
The design does not involve a database; there is no server-side activity; all is client side. One of the screens (either S1 or a screen it opens) must remain active as all the other screens ask questions and save answers in variables. As each screen captures its data it passes it to S1 before closing itself and opening the next screen. S1 moves to S2 to S3, etc by NEXT buttons, which close the predecessor screen and open the next screen.
The screen that holds all the data as the others do the work of collecting and passing the data, that screen should be hidden from view; that is, not displayed. The user is not to know that that screen is active. Using the technique of maximizing the screen display to hide other open screens is not acceptable.
Screen Sn is the one that at the end generates the report. Once the report is generated, screen Sn stays open until the user presses the CLOSE button. That is so that should an error have been made in the input, the user can use the BACK button to return to the appropriate input screen to correct the data originally entered. Once the CLOSE button is pressed, all data is lost.
My Question: Assuming S1 is the screen that stays active but not displayed after focus moves to S2, how do I hide S1 without closing it?
It is not essential that S1 be the screen that stays active, but it has to open the screen that stays active and invisible, if S1 is closed.
TIA
trbjr
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put S1 into a frame with height of 0px or set its style to display: none ...
kind regards
OK. Your first solution depends on using frames set to 0 pixels.
Can the second solution be used without frames? And can a style be set to display: none after a screen has been used for awhile and then when I move from S1 to S2 in that process set S1 to display none?
And does your reference to setting the style to display none mean I am using Cascading Style sheets? If so, I have more to study.
TIA
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OK. Your first solution depends on using frames set to 0 pixels.
Can the second solution be used without frames? And can a style be set to display: none after a screen has been used for awhile and then when I move from S1 to S2 in that process set S1 to display none?
And does your reference to setting the style to display none mean I am using Cascading Style sheets? If so, I have more to study.
TIA
first: yes ...you may use a 'normal' frame or an iframe ...
second: yes too ... you may use a form ... try to do the following:
[HTML]<form name="myform" action="whateve raction" style="display: none;">
<!-- more html here -->
</form>[/HTML]
and yes ... its css ... and you may set the style per javascript according to your needs ...
kind regards
ps: to display the above form set style="display: block";
gits - Thanks much! Your followup clarifies. I do have a lot to learn yet about css, so will do reading before coding.
What is this from your most recent post:
I am thinking about the "4strict" as opposed to just "html".
trbjr
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hi ...
when you wrap your code in [ HTML]-Tags it adds that ... it has nothing to do with the code itself ... it is for better reading and marking what the code is supposed to be ;) (it adds line-numbers too) AND: you always should wrap your code with the related code-tags ... read the: read first before posting thread
kind regards
gits,
great responses. Thanks. Consider this thread complete!
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