node js and html

[alan Horman]

Hi there,

I wanna know how is possible to make a "button function" in html using node js.
maybe is simple but I have no Ideas how it works or how i can beginn
I need help and if it´s possible to get a source code , let me know please.

[Aria Stewart]

HTML and node have almost nothing to do with each other — node.js usually runs on a server, HTML is usually in a web browser.

You might be trying to create an html <form>, which posts to a node.js server, which takes action on that.

Is that right?

[// ravi]

Hello Alan,

your question is a bit too generic to answer with any specificity, but I get the sense you are looking to use Node similar to how you would Apache(+PHP/etc)? i.e., a generic web server with some back-end scripting. With Node, in order to do that, you should consider a framework such as Express that lets you add some of that functionality to Node by giving you a way to serve static files, use templates, return AJAX data using routes, etc.

—ravi

[Alexey Petrushin]

"button function" ha-ha, remind me times of Borland Delphi :)

[Darren]

Alan, if you haven't seen it yet, there's a pretty good guide to getting started with Express here: http://expressjs.com/guide.html