Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7094291-20150818043319

I was hoping to create an interactive form that does some complex calculations based on user input and interactions on one my Wikia pages on a Wikia I own. Before the big security lockdown, I noticed that wikia pages didn't appear to accept html. I then had the idea to mess around with css, javascript and element ids to try to get this to work. I logged in the next day to try it out and wham, couldn't do anything with javascript.

Ok, so now I'm waiting for my wikia to allow me to edit javascript again (I assume I'll get this access again within the week based on what was said on here). However, I've read that any edits will be subject to a review process that may take 24-48 hours or longer. This pretty much makes it impossible to experiment and play around to figure out how to make this possible. Typically developers can make a code change, test, make a code change, test, make a code change, test, etc.. This back and forth will happen hundreds of time throughout a day of development. Now, that hundreds of times will literally take over a year, instead of a day.

I'm a fairly competent developer, so once I get the gist, I'm sure I can work through the delayed review process (though it will be extremely painful and make me want to pull my hair out).

So, because of the inability to test javascript changes, I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction on how to accomplish this on a wikia page. If I can figure out how to add a form and form elements to a wikia page and reference said form elements from a javascript function on that page, the rest should be pretty simple and straight forward.

If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would very much appreciate it, as google has failed me on any searches where I've tried to find something useful on this subject. 