Dynamically Creating Web Pages

**VBWheaties** · Feb 25 '08, 05:55 PM

Originally posted by rohara

Given a web form with a Rad Editor, I would like to be able to have this form create a new web page with the given text entered into the editor? I am not quite sure how to begin. The page will also have a ddl which the user can select which part of the menu the page will be sent to? Is there a way to do this or should I consider a new option?

You can write the HTML code on every key press or Change event in the 'rad' editor. (RAD = Rapid Application Development?)

What do you mean by DDL? Thats usually Data Definition Language among others. Or do you mean dynamic creation of HTML code?

**rohara** · Feb 25 '08, 06:14 PM

DDL = Drop Down List. This will be a asp.net web form which will have a Drop Down List which will list groups of pages for which you could save the page under. The only real thing that I need to know how to do is create a new web form from code behind or in the html source so that when you click a button it will create a web form with the text being what is typed in the Rad Editor. And the Rad Editor is a control which is developed by Telerik, but you can think of it as a complex text box.

**VBWheaties** · Feb 25 '08, 07:15 PM

Originally posted by rohara

DDL = Drop Down List. This will be a asp.net web form which will have a Drop Down List which will list groups of pages for which you could save the page under. The only real thing that I need to know how to do is create a new web form from code behind or in the html source so that when you click a button it will create a web form with the text being what is typed in the Rad Editor. And the Rad Editor is a control which is developed by Telerik, but you can think of it as a complex text box.

My approach would be to maintain an HTML string variable. Something with the starting HTML tag "<HTML>"

Code:

Public strHTML As String = "<HTML>"

As the user types in the RAD, you could update the variable. You'd need to figure out how the RAD handles the events. In a regular textbox, there is a CHANGE event which fires when text changes. Also, there are keypress event, as well as Keyup, Keydown. So the choice is yours.

Code:

    Private Sub RAD_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RAD.TextChanged
   strHTML = "<HTML>" & RAD.Text
    End Sub

When they click the button to create the page, you would use StreamWriter object to output the HTML and save with an .HTML file extension.

Code:

Dim streamHTML As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter("MyHTML.HTML")
streamHTML.Write strHTML & "</HTML>"

As for webforms, that is ASP.net technology and I would be guessing. Best bet: post this to ASP.net to see if there is a better suggestion.

Dynamically Creating Web Pages

Dynamically Creating Web Pages

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