Difficult Question: Revision

[Rebecca]

Greetings, again. Sorry to post this the second time, but
I believe my first post was ignored because my explanation
was a little vague.

As I mentioned before, I'm using MS Windows XP and
Explorer 6.0. I hope this is the right place to ask this
question. There is a website where I go regularly:

http://hcsb.broadmanholman.com/crossmain.asp

On each page there are many numbers scattered throughout
the text that are bracketed, and they look like this: [23]
blah, blah, blah, [24] blah, blah, blah, [25] blah, blah,
blah, and so on.

If I click my mouse on the numbers in the brackets, a
footnote will appear (not as a popup; the text merely
expands to the right). There are many such brackets on
each page. It is very tedious to click on all them as I
go down the page. Is there any way (or handy technique) I
can use that will open up all "footnotes" simultanteouly,
instead of clicking on them one by one? Thanks for your
help.

 

[WazoO]

Greetings, again. Sorry to post this the second time, but
I believe my first post was ignored because my explanation
was a little vague.

As I mentioned before, I'm using MS Windows XP and
Explorer 6.0. I hope this is the right place to ask this
question. There is a website where I go regularly:

http://hcsb.broadmanholman.com/crossmain.asp

On each page there are many numbers scattered throughout
the text that are bracketed, and they look like this: [23]
blah, blah, blah, [24] blah, blah, blah, [25] blah, blah,
blah, and so on.

If I click my mouse on the numbers in the brackets, a
footnote will appear (not as a popup; the text merely
expands to the right). There are many such brackets on
each page. It is very tedious to click on all them as I
go down the page. Is there any way (or handy technique) I
can use that will open up all "footnotes" simultanteouly,
instead of clicking on them one by one? Thanks for your
help.

What did the folks at the web-site say when you asked them?
They are the ones that wrote it this way. I didn't "see" the
page as the same web-page designer felt that I need to
change my settings and allow cookies for some undefined
purpose. Oh well ...

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Is there any way (or handy technique) I can use

that will open up all "footnotes" simultaneouly,
instead of clicking on them one by one?

You can View Source and then do finds for fntext
The page uses frames, so to View Source you need to right-click
in the main text frame and select View Source.

Of course, if you have a text editor with more power than Notepad
you could use it instead to quickly extract a list of all of those items
or at least highlight the <span> tags which contain them.

Something else which should be feasible is to treat the page as XML
and then process it with some kind of transform. (It's something which
I think is possible but which I don't exactly know how to do.) The furthest
that I usually get in that direction is renaming .htm files to .xml and
then letting IE validate the HTML as XML. Even doing that might
make those items more readable for you.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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Greetings, again. Sorry to post this the second time, but
I believe my first post was ignored because my explanation
was a little vague.

As I mentioned before, I'm using MS Windows XP and
Explorer 6.0. I hope this is the right place to ask this
question. There is a website where I go regularly:

http://hcsb.broadmanholman.com/crossmain.asp

On each page there are many numbers scattered throughout
the text that are bracketed, and they look like this: [23]
blah, blah, blah, [24] blah, blah, blah, [25] blah, blah,
blah, and so on.

If I click my mouse on the numbers in the brackets, a
footnote will appear (not as a popup; the text merely
expands to the right). There are many such brackets on
each page. It is very tedious to click on all them as I
go down the page. Is there any way (or handy technique) I
can use that will open up all "footnotes" simultanteouly,
instead of clicking on them one by one? Thanks for your
help.