write to an html file dynamically?

anonsu

02-04-2005, 02:08 AM

hi,
I am a newbie to javascript....and I wanted to know whether it could be possible to do the following:

I have a jsp page with some javascript. The javascript gets some text data form user at run time. I want to know if it possible to create an html file (dynamically) such that the data received in the javscript will be added to the BODY tags of the html. This file does not need to displayed to the user right away it just needs to be created and saved on his PC. Also I am writing timestamps to the file (currently a text file) how I can make those timestamps look like links and provide links to different pages depending on the value of the timestamp.

This is urgent ...someone pls help!!
-AU.

_Aerospace_Eng_

02-04-2005, 03:35 AM

security issue here, u are not going to be able to save the file DIRECTLY to the users pc, u must get them to download the created file

jbot

02-04-2005, 10:16 AM

sounds like you're going about this the wrong way. why on earth do you need to create files on the users' machines?

anonsu

02-04-2005, 07:15 PM

Is it possible to create the file and save it onn a webserver form javascript?
Anyways that is not an imp issue...what I am relly concerned about is creating and html file dynamically and write the data that user enters into the BODY tag. Any solution/pointers?
thanks,
Au.

jbot

02-04-2005, 07:28 PM

you need to post the form data to a serverside language which then parses it into a DB or file, HTMl or otherwise.