Assigning whole page to variable?

Sheltered · Oct 5, 2003

Hi, how do i go about assigning the source of my page to a variable?
Why do i want to do this?... because i have a table generated from a database using ASP, i want to save the generated page as a static HTML page on the click of a button. I understand javaScript cannot write to file so if i can assign the source to a variable and stuff the vairable into an <input> then i can use ASP to do the writin.

I have managed so far to get all text (but no HTML) from my page using some javascript i found on another thread, and i can output it into a <textarea>.

onload = function() {
test = document.body.innerText;
document.getElementById("textspan&quot

.innerText = test;
}

and...
<textarea id="textspan" cols="80" rows="20"></textarea>

The output however is not formatted in anyway.
I also tried using innerHtml but this didnt work at all.

Any ideas on how can get round this?
Thanks

Pete

badaze · Oct 5, 2003

Well... I don't know much of ASP. However I know enough of PHP. May be you'll find the way to translate PHP commands in ASP.

The purpose of the following code is to display a 10 rows table twice. Between ob_start() and ob_end_flush()the output is not sent to the navigator but stored. ob_get_contents() allows to store the content in a string ($myString in the example).
ob_end_flush() sends the output to the navigator and then the first instance of the 10 rows table is displayed.
<? print $myString ?> before closing html tag prints the html code I saved and then it displays the second instance of the 10 rows table.
I hope it will be clear.... I'm not used to write in English.

Code:

<html>
<body><? 
ob_start();?>
<table><? 
// Here I generate some html code.... 
for ($i=0;$i<=10;$i++) {?>
<tr><td><? print $i ?></td></tr><? 
} ?>
</table><?
$myString = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_flush();?>
<br>
<!-- Here I print myString it's like duplicating the table -->
<? print $myString ?>
</html>

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Assigning whole page to variable?

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