Displaying Web Pages in a Field

[Devin Asay]

Well, he did say he wanted the text files to look “something like they do in a browser”. That’s an easy way to at least be able to easily read the html text in a field. But you’re right, it’s not ideal for high-quality display.

Devin


On Apr 30, 2015, at 4:10 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

> Using htmlText may not render the page layout described in the HTML.
> You'd probably need to use the browser object and set the URL of the
> browser to the local file to see the page rendered correctly.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/30/15, 2:29 PM, "Devin Asay" <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 30, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> 
>>> I¹m a little rusty, so please excuse the lame question. I have some
>>> text files that are downloaded web pages. How can I display them in a
>>> stack field to look something like they do in a browser, that is,
>>> without the HTML tags showing?
>> 
>> Gregory,
>> 
>> set the htmlText of fld ³myfld² to URL ³file:/path/to/file.html²
>> 
>> Devin
>> 
>> Devin Asay
>> Office of Digital Humanities
>> Brigham Young University
>> 
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Devin Asay
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University