When JavaScript is disabled, do not display HTML form and form elements

[patricksabourin]

On my site,

I have 2 methods of displaying my data:
1) HTML form with select-option element. (Jump to different page when
clicking "Go" button"
2) HTML table with a hyperlink.

What I would like to do is the following:
If JavaScript is disabled (or non existant on some browsers), to NOT
display the HTML form with select-option element.

This will help to keep the webpage cleaner for the viewers.


PS: I only have access to client-side scripting.

Thanks

 

[web.dev]

On my site,

I have 2 methods of displaying my data:
1) HTML form with select-option element. (Jump to different page when
clicking "Go" button"
2) HTML table with a hyperlink.

What I would like to do is the following:
If JavaScript is disabled (or non existant on some browsers), to NOT
display the HTML form with select-option element.

This will help to keep the webpage cleaner for the viewers.


PS: I only have access to client-side scripting.

Thanks

Then you should use css to style it such that the form is initially not
visible. When javascript is available, the script should switch it
back to being visible.

If you _only_ have access to client-side scripting, then it's not your
problem. It's the responsibility of the web page author.

 

[Randy Webb]

(e-mail address removed) said the following on 7/28/2006 6:06 PM:

On my site,

I have 2 methods of displaying my data:
1) HTML form with select-option element. (Jump to different page when
clicking "Go" button"

Use scripting to create the select element and the Go Button. Then, if
scripting is disabled or not present, then the select isn't there at all.

 

[Randy Webb]

web.dev said the following on 7/28/2006 6:10 PM:

Then you should use css to style it such that the form is initially not
visible.

No, you don't.

When javascript is available, the script should switch it back to being visible.

No, you have JS create it to begin with. Then, if scripting is enabled,
you see the select, otherwise you don't. And if the code to create the
select is in an external file, you don't have to download code that
never gets executed.

If you _only_ have access to client-side scripting, then it's not your
problem. It's the responsibility of the web page author.

Do you have any comprehension of the question asked? Go read it again.
It is quite obvious that he *is* the web page author.

 

[web.dev]

web.dev said the following on 7/28/2006 6:10 PM:

Do you have any comprehension of the question asked? Go read it again.
It is quite obvious that he *is* the web page author.

I do. But the way it was read suggested that he is only an author for
client side scripting while there might have been another who strictly
does html authoring.

 

[patricksabourin]

I ended up using document.write statements.

Thanks for all of your help and suggestions.