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@PeterPan_321Jan 20.2019 — #But I'm talking about loading a SEPARATE html file... separate from the existing HTML page. Thats why I've been using The loadXMLDoc() call. it works fine, but I'm always needing to support very old browsers, and loadXMLDoc() is pretty new. I know there's an older synchronous equivalent (document.load() I think?) but it is considered an error now. LINK, on the other hand, has been around since browsers began, so i was hoping to use it.
Are you saying to somehow place the HTML I want to load into a CSS file? I don't understand. @PeterPan_321Jan 20.2019 — #@root#1600200 No... I am going to be re-arranging the content using javascript, placing the altered contents into other page elements. I was trying to avoid delving deep into the code or application here, as I'll post that later. For now I was just wanting to see if it was possible to do it with a <LINK>. consider the following small piece of code...
If I call this with a valid URL on my own server, I will have the entire HTML file in the variable called 'content'. All I wanted to know is whether I could do the same with a <LINK> tag somehow.
EDIT: By the way, just discovered that firefox allows XMLHttpRequest() to grab content from your own hard drive when testing pages at home. Seems a violation of security (no other browser allows it), but at least with FF, it IS a handy thing for testing the code and page.
Can I use a tag to load a hidden HTML document?
I’m experimenting with some page re-format scripting, and I’ve been using loadXMLDoc() to load in an html document into a javascript variable. From there I can use it in my coded re-formatting experiments, keeping it hidden until the script completes.
loadXMLdoc() works, but maybe it is unnecessary overhead? I’ve been reading about the different uses of the html <link> tag, on the developer.mozilla.org site, and I’m beginning to wonder if there might be a way to do the same thing with a simple <link> tag. Is it possible to use <link> to “load” in the contents of an HTML document, and have it remain unseen but available to subsequent javascript code? If I included a line, maybe like this?…
<link rel=”import” type = “text/html” href=”/someFile.html”>
maybe the linktype (‘rel)’ has to be something else, but in any case even if it worked, how would I access the content? Can I put an ID attribute in a link tag, and then access it through a simple “document.getElementById()” call?
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@PeterPan_321Jan 20.2019 — #Are you saying to somehow place the HTML I want to load into a CSS file? I don't understand.
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@PeterPan_321Jan 20.2019 — #[code=javascript]
var content="";
function loadXMLDoc(location) {
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
content = this.responseText;
fillColumns();
}
};
try {
xhttp.open("GET", location, true);
xhttp.send();
}
catch(err) { alert("could not load from: " + location );}
}
[/code]If I call this with a valid URL on my own server, I will have the entire HTML file in the variable called 'content'. All I wanted to know is whether I could do the same with a <LINK> tag somehow.
EDIT: By the way, just discovered that firefox allows XMLHttpRequest() to grab content from your own hard drive when testing pages at home. Seems a violation of security (no other browser allows it), but at least with FF, it IS a handy thing for testing the code and page.