Can barcodes be used in a web environment?
Yes they can…both for printing barcodes and reading barcodes. For printing barcodes through a web page, see the BarCode-1 Web Apps page. If you have control of all the computers that will be printing the barcode, you can use a ttf barcode font to print the barcode too. Just download the ttf barcode font to each computer and then use the HTML code to sent the font. The sample html code looks like this : *12345* To read a barcode into a web form, just use a wedge barcode reader. This type of reader (most barcode readers these days are wedge readers) plugs in between the keyboard and computer. When you scan the barcode, it is as if you typed the data. You can use some Javascript to set the focus to the input box too. The code looks like this: For the page body tag use something like:
Then name the FORM tag like: