A minimal HTML interface
Now that we have dipped our toes into HTML, let's build a (nearly) minimal example of an interface entirely in HTML. To use your own HTML in a Shiny application, create the server.R file as you normally would. Then, instead of a ui.R file, create a folder named www and place a file named index.html inside this folder. This is where you will define your interface.
index.html
Let's look at each chunk of index.html in turn:
<!----------------------------->
<!--Minimal example- HTML UI -->
<!----------------------------->
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML minimal example</title>
<script src="shared/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="shared/shiny.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="shared/shiny.css"/>
<style type = "text/css">
body {
background-color: #ecf1ef;
}
#navigation {
position...
