Problem: i have auto-generated html files that need to displayed on the same page. I will not know the exact name of the html file, but i can add a prefix to it if there's a way to somehow do this using prefix+wildcard or something. (javascript? Idk)

Just need a quick setup, nothing fancy.

Ex.
Log-randomstuff.html
Log-randomstuff2.html
Log-randomstuff3.html
Added to one page in columns or rows.



One more thing.
How would i go about displaying a page upsidedown? Not literally, but reverse the lines like this, if possible:

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3

To

Line 3
Line 2
Line 1

So your html files are dynamically generated every time you visit the page and they're stored on your server? and they contain random stuff that you cannot control? that seems unusual. usually you have fixed files with placeholders/scripts to change content

typically you can put the script on your browser (grease monkey, ad-on, etc) or put it in your html file. i'm not sure how to put it on your site in such a way you can execute it on an html page without putting in your html page. but i'm not huge on web stuff.

as to reversing a page, that depends on what the html is and what you mean by reversing. if it's a very straight forward page, shouldn't be difficult to simply re-order the tags. but if it has a lot of css to align stuff, that's not going to be easy, especially if you don't know the format. or what if it's one big paragraph inside <p> with no <br/>? what does it mean to reverse that?

personally i'd look into how these files are generated and see what you can do about it. it would be best to generate content instead of actual files, i think.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Mar 2 2013 09:54am

Give an example of what one of the html files would look like.

If there's a way to use a wildcard with that it would work nicely, such as: webroot/logfile-*.html
Dunno, gotta sleep im tired

thanks for the infos and such

not possible through html only. Use php or consider rethinking how you have things setup.

This post was edited by Azrad on Mar 2 2013 02:59pm

so there will continually be more files uploaded?

if they're numbered then this will be easy to do

Since the html file is very small, I am going to add each full line to an array element, then use array.reverse() and re-write the page from the new array. So that problem is now solved.



Of course.



No numbering, but I can change the prefix to anything such as LOG-xxx1.html, LOG-xxx2.html, etc. I suppose I could find a way to make them numbers if I absolutely have to.