macOS Widget javascript

[trainguy77]

How do you put text into a browser. So in a widget i press a button and it will inserts text into a spot on a open webpage? Is this possible?

Thanks

 

[ehwizard]

You could do something like this...


<div id='foo'></div>

<script>
document.getElementById("foo").innerHTML = "hi";
</script>

Is that what you mean?

 

[trainguy77]

You could do something like this...


<div id='foo'></div>

<script>
document.getElementById("foo").innerHTML = "hi";
</script>

Is that what you mean?

So i would put this in a widget then when it is run it would put "hi" into the ID "foo" of the webpage?

 

[ehwizard]

Yeah.

Take a look at: http://www.zete.org/people/ehorowitz/sample.html

View the source of the page and see the result.

 

[trainguy77]

Yes, but will that same line work if it is in widget putting code into the webpage? Will it just put it into the active window?

 

[ehwizard]

What webpage?

You mean you want a safari widget to insert code into a webpage open in Safari?

 

[trainguy77]

I will explain, a thread came up that mentioned have a widget running on dashboard that could insert, the noob answers into these forums. (of coarse never spamming) It would be able to have a button for like connecting Macs and PCs that kind of thing. This would save time answering the basic questions. More then anything, I just want to know more about making widgets.


(By the way I would never distribute it without permission from the mods!)