17887 2012-07-18 07:12:32 +0000 tree element to display directory 2012-09-27 23:54:09 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian eric.sun ian mike travil contributor oldest_to_newest 70244 0 contributor 2012-07-18 07:12:32 +0000 This was was cloned from bug 17689 as part of operation convergence. Originally filed: 2012-07-04 08:52:00 +0000 Original reporter: Yang Sun <eric.sun@huawei.com> ================================================================================ #0 Yang Sun 2012-07-04 08:52:07 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- when develop some application need to display local files in a hierachy style, it is not convinient to write a tree style UI for directory->file show,like windows explorer. I think other developer also have this requirement, so can we have a tree element to display directory/file in a tree style. ================================================================================ #1 Travis Leithead [MSFT] 2012-07-05 17:19:20 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If I understand your use-case correctly, I believe the technique used is nested list items. This is how table-of-contents are typically done, which is very similar in practice to directory/file listings. I don't think we need a new semantic element for this. ================================================================================ #2 Yang Sun 2012-07-06 08:48:00 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But we need to write more JS/CSS code to get a similar effect as windows explorer, and it make the web page redundant and large in size. a <explorer src="file:///x/xx"></explorer> will really be very simple. (In reply to comment #1) ================================================================================ 74693 1 ian 2012-09-27 23:54:09 +0000 If you want to display local files, just use <iframe src="file://..."></iframe> point to the directory. It won't work on the public Web, because we don't want to expose local files on public Web pages.