Basically I want
to load a HTML document and using controls such as multiple check boxes which will be programmed
to hide, delete or show HTML elements with certain ID's. So I am thinking I would have
to set an inline CSS property for visibility to: false on the ones I want
to hide or delete them altogether when necessary.
I need this so I don't have
to edit my Ebay HTML templates in dreamweaver all the time, where I usually have
to scroll around messy code and manually delete or add tags and their respective content. Whereas I just want
to create one master template in dreamweaver which has all the variations that my products have, since they are all of the same genre with slight changes here and there and I just need
to enable and disable the visibility of these variants as required and copy + paste the final html.
I haven's used Windows Forms before, but tried doing this in WebForms which I do know a bit. I am able
to get the result that I want by wrapping any HTML elements in a <asp:PlaceHolder></asp:PlaceHolder> and just setting that place holders visibility
to false after the associated checkbox is checked and a postback occurs, finally I add a checkbox/button control that removes all the checkboxes, including itself etc for final html. But this method seems just like too much pain in the ass as I have
to add the placeholder tags around everything that I need control over as ordinary html elements do not run at server, also webforms injects a bunch of Javascript and ViewState data so I don't have clean HTML which I can just copy after viewing the page source.
Any tips/code that you can suggest
to achieve the desired effect with the least changes required
to existing HTML documents? Ideally I would want
to load the HTML document in, have a live design preview of it and underneath have a bunch of well labelled checkboxes programmed
to hide, delete or show elements with certain ID's.
Thanks...
