window.html is empty

Granite1 · 12 Dec 2024, 17:49

A few weeks ago I did this:

Open window.html, and inside the <body> element add the following line:
<script src="custom.js"></script>
You can name the file as you want and also add multiple ones, one line at a time.

Add the custom.js file to the Vivaldi folder (alongside window.html)

as per https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/10549/modding-vivaldi

However, I just discovered the entire window.hml file is empty and I don't know how it happened.

I had backed it up but that one is also empty.
Is there a way to get an original.

DoctorG · 12 Dec 2024, 18:02

@Granite1 7.0.3495.26 Win 11

<!-- Vivaldi window document -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8" />
  <title>Vivaldi</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="style/common.css" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="chrome://vivaldi-data/css-mods/css" />
</head>

<body>
</body>

</html>

Granite1 · 13 Dec 2024, 11:58

@DoctorG :

7.0.3495.26 Win 11

Thanks for your help, sorry for my late reply.

I am confused, which is caused by my ignorance.

*I went ahead, copy/pasted your code – which BTW looks familiar from what I had seen before, though I don't remember the details – to a text file, and saved that file as window.html.
However, when I open that file in Vivaldi, it is empty, even though the default browser is the standard app to open html files with.

When I open that file with a text editor, the code is there!! Then, with a text editor, I opened the original window.html file I had, and the code was there too.

Please explain to me how this works.

DoctorG · 13 Dec 2024, 15:16

@Granite1 said in window.html is empty:

However, when I open that file in Vivaldi

The file is not to be opened in Vivaldi by you.
The browser loads itself when starting the UI.

I do not know what you want to change in Vivaldi UI.

mib2berlin · 13 Dec 2024, 15:25

@Granite1
Hi, the <body></body> tag is empty, a browser shows only an empty page.

Cheers, mib

Granite1 · 13 Dec 2024, 15:33

@DoctorG:

I do not know what you want to change in Vivaldi UI.

I don't want to change anything. But when I compile an html file, and I want to check its contents later, I double-click on it, and it gets opened in the default app, which for html files is the browser.

However, I now gather that in this case the html file should be opened by a text editor.

Many thanks for your help. It is sorted out, although I don't quite understand how.

Granite1 · 13 Dec 2024, 15:50

@mib2berlin:

Hi, the <body></body> tag is empty, a browser shows only an empty page.

Mine is not empty

but the browser page remains blank.

DoctorG · 13 Dec 2024, 15:58

@Granite1 What do you want to achieve with your edited window.html? For a UI modification?

Granite1 · 13 Dec 2024, 16:11

@DoctorG:

What do you want to achieve

Nothing. I just wanted to check if everything inside was still as it was when I last modified. The reason for the check is that my custom.js file was missing. I refound it but wanted to work out what had happened, and as part of this process I wanted to check the window.html file.

Pathduck · 13 Dec 2024, 23:02

@Granite1 said in window.html is empty:

Mine is not empty

The browser will try to render any HTML file, not display its source code.
The browser does not render any HTML tags, including everything in <head> and nor <script> tags.

If you want to view the source of a HTML file, use a plain text editor or viewer, on Linux that could be vi, nano or cat or any of the many of ways to view a text file.

If you want to view the source of a HTML file in the browser use View Page Source (Ctrl+U) or the Developer Tools.

Granite1 · 14 Dec 2024, 05:53

@Pathduck :

The browser does not render any HTML tags, including everything in <head> and nor <script> tags.

If you want to view the source of a HTML file, use a plain text editor or viewer

Now that is what I was looking for. Many thanks for clearing that up for me