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Re: LYNX-DEV How to fill up the forms off-line?


From: Al Gilman
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV How to fill up the forms off-line?
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 20:29:15 -0400 (EDT)

The brute force approach is as follows:

Starting with the page containing the form as the current document
in Lynx, use \ to view the source and p)rint to save the source to
a file.  

[Or with said page as the current link, use d)ownload to get the
form-bearing page in such a file.]

From here you can move the text of the HTML source anywhere you like
and edit it at your leisure.

You can edit the HTML so your answers are the defaults for the form.

Open the resulting html file with any browser, anywhere, and submit
the form.

This means that you have to text-edit your answers into the HTML
as the default values.  You don't get the forms-mode services of
a browser to assist you in filling out the form. This may require
some knowledge of HTML so as not to break the code in the
process.

I don't know that this approach would be convenient enough to keep
you happy, but it should work and allow for an arbitrary delay
and offline editing on any computer, not necessarily the one 
running Lynx.

--
Al Gilman
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