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The elements for the custom Web pages
Representative HTML elements for making the custom Web page are provided as AutoConnectElements.
- AutoConnectButton: Labeled action button
- AutoConnectCheckbox: Labeled checkbox
- AutoConnectElement: General tag
- AutoConnectInput: Labeled text input box
- AutoConnectRadio: Labeled radio button
- AutoConnectSelect: Selection list
- AutoConnectSubmit: Submit button
- AutoConnectText: Style attributed text
Each element has a common attribute and its own attributes.
Layout on custom Web page
You can specify the direction to arrange the radio buttons as AutoConnectRadio vertically or horizontally. Other elements are arranged vertically in the order of addition to AutoConnectAux. This basic layout depends on the CSS of the AutoConnect menu so it can not be changed drastically.
Form and AutoConnectElements
All AutoConnectElements placed on a custom Web page are included in one form. Its form is fixed and created by AutoConnect. The form's value (usually the text or checkbox you entered) is sent by AutoConnectSubmit using the POST method.
name and value of each AutoConnectElement which own form-data are reflected in the query string when the custom Web page was sent. You can retrieve the value in the sketch as the parameter's value of the query string with ESP8266WebServer::arg function or PageArgument class of AutoConnect::on handler when the form is submitted.
AutoConnectElement - A basic class of elements
AutoConnectElement is a base class for other element classes and has common attributes for all elements. It can also be used as a variant of each element. The following items are attributes that AutoConnectElement has and are common to other elements.
Constructor
AutoConnectElement(const char* name, const char* value)
name
Every element has a name. Name is the String data type. To access its element in the sketches you can identify by the name. Its method is useful for loading elements in JSON. In the load function of AutoConnectElement(s) described later, these objects are not created in advance by sketches. Therefore, access to the attribute of that element by name as follows:
AutoConnectAux customPage("/custom_page", "Custom page");
const char ELEMENT_TEXT[] PROGMEM = R"(
{
"name": "text1",
"type": "ACText",
"value": "Hello, world"
}
)";
customPage.loadElement(ELEMENT_TEXT);
AutoConnectText& text1 = customPage.getElement<AutoConnectText>("text1");
text1.style = "text-align:center;color:#2f4f4f;"
The above example accesses the text1 element which loaded from JSON using AutoConnectAux's getElement function by name and sets the style attribute.
value
Value is the source of the HTML code generated with the element and its data type is String. Characteristics of Value vary depending on the element. The value of AutoConnectElement is native HTML code. A string of value is output as HTML as it is.
type
Type indicates the type of the element and represented as the ACElement_t enumeration type in the sketch. Since AutoConnectElement also acts as a variant of other elements, it can be applied to handle elements collectively. At that time, the type can be referred to by the typeOf() function. The following example changes the font color of all AutoConnectText elements of a custom Web page to gray.
AutoConnectAux customPage;
AutoConnectElementVT& elements = customPage.getElements();
for (AutoConnectElement& elm : elements) {
if (elm.typeOf() == AC_Text) {
AutoConnectText& text = reinterpret_cast<AutoConnectText&>(elm);
text.style = "color:gray;";
}
}
The enumerators for ACElement_t are as follows:
- AutoConnectButton: AC_Button
- AutoConnectCheckbox: AC_Checkbox
- AutoConnectElement: AC_Element
- AutoConnectInput: AC_Input
- AutoConnectRadio: AC_Radio
- AutoConnectSelect: AC_Select
- AutoConnectSubmit: AC_Submit
- AutoConnectText: AC_Text
- Uninitialized element: AC_Unknown
Furthermore, to convert an entity that is not an AutoConnectElement to its native type, you must re-interpret that type with c++.
AutoConnectButton
AutoConnectButton generates an HTML button type="button" tag and locates a clickable button to a custom Web page. Currently AutoConnectButton corresponds only to name, value, an onclick attribute of HTML button tag. An onclick attribute is generated from an action member variable of the AutoConnectButton, which is mostly used with a JavaScript to activate a script.
Constructor
AutoConnectButton(const char* name, const char* value, const String& action)
name
It is the name of the AutoConnectButton element and matches the name attribute of the button tag. It also becomes the parameter name of the query string when submitted.
value
It becomes a value of the value attribute of an HTML button tag.
action
action is String data type and is an onclick attribute fire on a mouse click on the element. it is mostly used with a JavaScript to activate a script.1 For example, the following code defines a custom Web page that copies a content of Text1 to Text2 by clicking Button.
const char* scCopyText = R"(
<script>
function CopyText() {
document.getElementById("Text2").value = document.getElementById("Text1").value;
}
</script>
)";
ACInput(Text1, "Text1");
ACInput(Text2, "Text2");
ACButton(Button, "COPY", "CopyText()");
ACElement(TextCopy, scCopyText);
AutoConnectCheckbox
AutoConnectCheckbox generates an HTML input type="checkbox" tag and a label tag. It places horizontally on a custom Web page by default.
Constructor
AutoConnectCheckbox(const char* name, const char* value, const char* label, const bool checked)
name
It is the name of the AutoConnectCheckbox element and matches the name attribute of the input tag. It also becomes the parameter name of the query string when submitted.
value
It becomes a value of the value attribute of an HTML input tag.
label
A label is an optional string. If you specify a label, an id attribute is attached to the HTML checkbox tag and an HTML label tag is generated. Label tag and checkbox will combine by its id attribute. Labels are always placed on the right side of the checkbox. If you do not specify a label, only ☐ will be displayed.
checked
A checked is a Boolean value and indicates the checked status of the checkbox.
AutoConnectInput
AutoConnectInput genarates an HTML input type="text" tag and a label tag. It can also have a placeholder.
AutoConnectRadio
AutoConnectSelect
AutoConnectSubmit
AutoConnectText
How to coding for the elements
Definition in sketch
Each element can be defined by a macro. By using the macro, you can treat element names that are String types as variables in sketches.
ACElement( name [, value ] )
ACButton( name [, value ] [, action ] )
ACCheckbox( name [, value ] [, label ] [, true | false ] )
ACInput( name [, value ] [, placeholder ] [, label ] )
ACRadio( name [, values ] [, label ] [, AC_Horitontal | AC_Vertical ] [, checked ] )
ACSelect( name [, options ] [, label ] )
ACSubmit( name [, value ] [, uri ] )
ACText( name [, value ] [, style ] )
Variant for AutoConnectElements
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JavaScript can be inserted into a custom Web page using AutoConnectElement. ↩︎