I am looking for (but not having much luck on google) a service that allows you to embed a crossword in to a webpage, but I dont just want the user to complete the crossword, i want the user to submit the completed crossword to me.
Failing that, I'd like to embed a crossword that has selected letters highlighted to make a word (you know the one, right) and then I can just have a form below for the user to send me the word once completed.
you will have to make a <form> so that you can submit it to your server. You are best off using dom methods and loops otherwise it's going to be a lot of repetitive typing. This might help as a starting point:
Code:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<form name="myform"></form>
<script>
var theform=document.myform
for (var e=1; e<65; e++) { //change 65 to allow for more or less boxes in total
sq=document.createElement("input")
brk=document.createElement("br")
sq.type="text";
sq.name="box"+e;
sq.size="1"
sq.maxLength=1;
theform.appendChild(sq)
if(e%8==0){theform.appendChild(brk)}//change to allow for more or less boxes in row
}
blksq=[1,7,10,14,27,53] //numbers here put black squares on the grid
for (var i=0; i<blksq.length; i++) {
num=blksq[i]-1
el=document.myform.getElementsByTagName("input")[num]
el.readOnly="true"
el.value=""
el.style.backgroundColor="#000000"
}
numbers=[2,8,9,11,15,18] //numbers here put numbers in the squares on the grid
for (var i=0; i<numbers.length; i++) {
num2=numbers[i]-1
el2=document.myform.getElementsByTagName("input")[num2]
el2.value=i+1
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Hi xelawho, you really do like a challenge don't you haha
Well thanks for the code, thats a brilliant start and I can work with that to create the crosswords. I am not too sure what angle I want to take on this, it's for a site that I may not end up going through with because i'm still looking at the legalities and gambling laws etc etc
Basically, to run a legal competition, it has to have an element of skill, and the most common seems to be the "spot the ball" method but I thought i'd just try and be different and do a sudoku or a crossword puzzle.
So I would have to get the user to register/login and then they would have access to pay for their entry in to the crossword bit, with fully completed and correct entries then going in to the raffle. (This is the bit I am not sure of the legalities). I have never even set up a register/log in "thing" before without phpbb which is how I have done it on the other site you helped me with.
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