I have 2 HTML files, suppose a.html and b.html. In a.html I want to include b.html.
In JSF I can do it like that:
<ui:include src="b.xhtml" />
It means that inside a.xhtml file, I can include b.xhtml.
How can we do it in *.html file?
In my opinion the best solution uses jQuery:
a.html:
<html>
<head>
<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script>
$(function(){
$("#includedContent").load("b.html");
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="includedContent"></div>
</body>
</html>
b.html:
<p>This is my include file</p>
This method is a simple and clean solution to my problem.
The jQuery .load() documentation is here.
Expanding lolo's answer, here is a little more automation if you have to include a lot of files. Use this JS code:
$(function () {
var includes = $('[data-include]')
$.each(includes, function () {
var file = 'views/' + $(this).data('include') + '.html'
$(this).load(file)
})
})
And then to include something in the html:
<div data-include="header"></div>
<div data-include="footer"></div>
Which would include the file views/header.html and views/footer.html.
My solution is similar to the one of lolo above. However, I insert the HTML code via JavaScript's document.write instead of using jQuery:
a.html:
<html>
<body>
<h1>Put your HTML content before insertion of b.js.</h1>
...
<script src="b.js"></script>
...
<p>And whatever content you want afterwards.</p>
</body>
</html>
b.js:
document.write('\
\
<h1>Add your HTML code here</h1>\
\
<p>Notice however, that you have to escape LF's with a '\', just like\
demonstrated in this code listing.\
</p>\
\
');
The reason for me against using jQuery is that jQuery.js is ~90kb in size, and I want to keep the amount of data to load as small as possible.
In order to get the properly escaped JavaScript file without much work, you can use the following sed command:
sed 's/\\/\\\\/g;s/^.*$/&\\/g;s/'\''/\\'\''/g' b.html > escapedB.html
Or just use the following handy bash script published as a Gist on Github, that automates all necessary work, converting b.html to b.js:
https://gist.github.com/Tafkadasoh/334881e18cbb7fc2a5c033bfa03f6ee6
Credits to Greg Minshall for the improved sed command that also escapes back slashes and single quotes, which my original sed command did not consider.
Alternatively for browsers that support template literals the following also works:
b.js:
document.write(`
<h1>Add your HTML code here</h1>
<p>Notice, you do not have to escape LF's with a '\',
like demonstrated in the above code listing.
</p>
`);
Checkout HTML5 imports via Html5rocks tutorial
and at polymer-project
For example:
<head>
<link rel="import" href="/path/to/imports/stuff.html">
</head>
Shameless plug of a library that I wrote the solve this.
https://github.com/LexmarkWeb/csi.js
<div data-include="/path/to/include.html"></div>
The above will take the contents of /path/to/include.html and replace the div with it.
No need for scripts. No need to do any fancy stuff server-side (tho that would probably be a better option)
<iframe src="/path/to/file.html" seamless></iframe>
Since old browsers don't support seamless, you should add some css to fix it:
iframe[seamless] {
border: none;
}
Keep in mind that for browsers that don't support seamless, if you click a link in the iframe it will make the frame go to that url, not the whole window. A way to get around that is to have all links have target="_parent", tho the browser support is "good enough".
A simple server side include directive to include another file found in the same folder looks like this:
<!--#include virtual="a.html" -->
Also you can try:
<!--#include file="a.html" -->
A very old solution I did met my needs back then, but here's how to do it standards-compliant code:
<!--[if IE]>
<object classid="clsid:25336920-03F9-11CF-8FD0-00AA00686F13" data="some.html">
<p>backup content</p>
</object>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if !IE]> <-->
<object type="text/html" data="some.html">
<p>backup content</p>
</object>
<!--> <![endif]-->
Following works if html content from some file needs to be included:
For instance, the following line will include the contents of piece_to_include.html at the location where the OBJECT definition occurs.
...text before...
<OBJECT data="file_to_include.html">
Warning: file_to_include.html could not be included.
</OBJECT>
...text after...
Reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/struct/includes.html#h-7.7.4
Here is my inline solution:
(() => {
const includes = document.getElementsByTagName('include');
[].forEach.call(includes, i => {
let filePath = i.getAttribute('src');
fetch(filePath).then(file => {
file.text().then(content => {
i.insertAdjacentHTML('afterend', content);
i.remove();
});
});
});
})();
<p>FOO</p>
<include src="a.html">Loading...</include>
<p>BAR</p>
<include src="b.html">Loading...</include>
<p>TEE</p>
In w3.js include works like this:
<body>
<div w3-include-HTML="h1.html"></div>
<div w3-include-HTML="content.html"></div>
<script>w3.includeHTML();</script>
</body>
For proper description look into this: https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_html_include.asp
As an alternative, if you have access to the .htaccess file on your server, you can add a simple directive that will allow php to be interpreted on files ending in .html extension.
RemoveHandler .html
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html
Now you can use a simple php script to include other files such as:
<?php include('b.html'); ?>
This is what helped me. For adding a block of html code from b.html to a.html, this should go into the head tag of a.html:
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
Then in the body tag, a container is made with an unique id and a javascript block to load the b.html into the container, as follows:
<div id="b-placeholder">
</div>
<script>
$(function(){
$("#b-placeholder").load("b.html");
});
</script>
I know this is a very old post, so some methods were not available back then.
But here is my very simple take on it (based on Lolo's answer).
It relies on the HTML5 data-* attributes and therefore is very generic in that is uses jQuery's for-each function to get every .class matching "load-html" and uses its respective 'data-source' attribute to load the content:
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="load-html" id="NavigationMenu" data-source="header.html"></div>
<div class="load-html" id="MainBody" data-source="body.html"></div>
<div class="load-html" id="Footer" data-source="footer.html"></div>
</div>
<script src="js/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(function () {
$(".load-html").each(function () {
$(this).load(this.dataset.source);
});
});
</script>
Most of the solutions works but they have issue with jquery:
The issue is following code $(document).ready(function () { alert($("#includedContent").text()); } alerts nothing instead of alerting included content.
I write the below code, in my solution you can access to included content in $(document).ready function:
(The key is loading included content synchronously).
index.htm:
<html>
<head>
<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script>
(function ($) {
$.include = function (url) {
$.ajax({
url: url,
async: false,
success: function (result) {
document.write(result);
}
});
};
}(jQuery));
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
alert($("#test").text());
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<script>$.include("include.inc");</script>
</body>
</html>
include.inc:
<div id="test">
There is no issue between this solution and jquery.
</div>
jquery include plugin on github
You can use a polyfill of HTML Imports (https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/imports/), or that simplified solution
https://github.com/dsheiko/html-import
For example, on the page you import HTML block like that:
<link rel="html-import" href="./some-path/block.html" >
The block may have imports of its own:
<link rel="html-import" href="./some-other-path/other-block.html" >
The importer replaces the directive with the loaded HTML pretty much like SSI
These directives will be served automatically as soon as you load this small JavaScript:
<script async src="./src/html-import.js"></script>
It will process the imports when DOM is ready automatically. Besides, it exposes an API that you can use to run manually, to get logs and so on. Enjoy :)
Here's my approach using Fetch API and async function
<div class="js-component" data-name="header" data-ext="html"></div>
<div class="js-component" data-name="footer" data-ext="html"></div>
<script>
const components = document.querySelectorAll('.js-component')
const loadComponent = async c => {
const { name, ext } = c.dataset
const response = await fetch(`${name}.${ext}`)
const html = await response.text()
c.innerHTML = html
}
[...components].forEach(loadComponent)
</script>
To insert contents of the named file:
<!--#include virtual="filename.htm"-->
Another approach using Fetch API with Promise
<html>
<body>
<div class="root" data-content="partial.html">
<script>
const root = document.querySelector('.root')
const link = root.dataset.content;
fetch(link)
.then(function (response) {
return response.text();
})
.then(function (html) {
root.innerHTML = html;
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Did you try a iFrame injection?
It injects the iFrame in the document and deletes itself (it is supposed to be then in the HTML DOM)
<iframe src="header.html" onload="this.before((this.contentDocument.body||this.contentDocument).children[0]);this.remove()"></iframe>
Regards
The Athari´s answer (the first!) was too much conclusive! Very Good!
But if you would like to pass the name of the page to be included as URL parameter, this post has a very nice solution to be used combined with:
http://www.jquerybyexample.net/2012/06/get-url-parameters-using-jquery.html
So it becomes something like this:
Your URL:
www.yoursite.com/a.html?p=b.html
The a.html code now becomes:
<html>
<head>
<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script>
function GetURLParameter(sParam)
{
var sPageURL = window.location.search.substring(1);
var sURLVariables = sPageURL.split('&');
for (var i = 0; i < sURLVariables.length; i++)
{
var sParameterName = sURLVariables[i].split('=');
if (sParameterName[0] == sParam)
{
return sParameterName[1];
}
}
}
$(function(){
var pinc = GetURLParameter('p');
$("#includedContent").load(pinc);
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="includedContent"></div>
</body>
</html>
It worked very well for me!
I hope have helped :)
html5rocks.com has a very good tutorial on this stuff, and this might be a little late, but I myself didn't know this existed. w3schools also has a way to do this using their new library called w3.js. The thing is, this requires the use of a web server and and HTTPRequest object. You can't actually load these locally and test them on your machine. What you can do though, is use polyfills provided on the html5rocks link at the top, or follow their tutorial. With a little JS magic, you can do something like this:
var link = document.createElement('link');
if('import' in link){
//Run import code
link.setAttribute('rel','import');
link.setAttribute('href',importPath);
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(link);
//Create a phantom element to append the import document text to
link = document.querySelector('link[rel="import"]');
var docText = document.createElement('div');
docText.innerHTML = link.import;
element.appendChild(docText.cloneNode(true));
} else {
//Imports aren't supported, so call polyfill
importPolyfill(importPath);
}
This will make the link (Can change to be the wanted link element if already set), set the import (unless you already have it), and then append it. It will then from there take that and parse the file in HTML, and then append it to the desired element under a div. This can all be changed to fit your needs from the appending element to the link you are using. I hope this helped, it may irrelevant now if newer, faster ways have come out without using libraries and frameworks such as jQuery or W3.js.
UPDATE: This will throw an error saying that the local import has been blocked by CORS policy. Might need access to the deep web to be able to use this because of the properties of the deep web. (Meaning no practical use)
Use includeHTML (smallest js-lib: ~150 lines)
Loading HTML parts via HTML tag (pure js)
Supported load: async/sync, any deep recursive includes
Supported protocols: http://, https://, file:///
Supported browsers: IE 9+, FF, Chrome (and may be other)
USAGE:
1.Insert includeHTML into head section (or before body close tag) in HTML file:
<script src="js/includeHTML.js"></script>
2.Anywhere use includeHTML as HTML tag:
<div data-src="header.html"></div>
There is no direct HTML solution for the task for now. Even HTML Imports (which is permanently in draft) will not do the thing, because Import != Include and some JS magic will be required anyway.
I recently wrote a VanillaJS script that is just for inclusion HTML into HTML, without any complications.
Just place in your a.html
<link data-wi-src="b.html" />
<!-- ... and somewhere below is ref to the script ... -->
<script src="wm-html-include.js"> </script>
It is open-source and may give an idea (I hope)
You can do that with JavaScript's library jQuery like this:
HTML:
<div class="banner" title="banner.html"></div>
JS:
$(".banner").each(function(){
var inc=$(this);
$.get(inc.attr("title"), function(data){
inc.replaceWith(data);
});
});
Please note that banner.html should be located under the same domain your other pages are in otherwise your webpages will refuse the banner.html file due to Cross-Origin Resource Sharing policies.
Also, please note that if you load your content with JavaScript, Google will not be able to index it so it's not exactly a good method for SEO reasons.
Web Components
I create following web-component similar to JSF
<ui-include src="b.xhtml"><ui-include>
You can use it as regular html tag inside your pages (after including snippet js code)
customElements.define('ui-include', class extends HTMLElement {
async connectedCallback() {
let src = this.getAttribute('src');
this.innerHTML = await (await fetch(src)).text();;
}
})
ui-include { margin: 20px } /* example CSS */
<ui-include src="https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/https://example.com/index.html"></ui-include>
<div>My page data... - in this snippet styles overlaps...</div>
<ui-include src="https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/https://www.w3.org/index.html"></ui-include>
None of these solutions suit my needs. I was looking for something more PHP-like. This solution is quite easy and efficient, in my opinion.
include.js ->
void function(script) {
const { searchParams } = new URL(script.src);
fetch(searchParams.get('src')).then(r => r.text()).then(content => {
script.outerHTML = content;
});
}(document.currentScript);
index.html ->
<script src="/include.js?src=/header.html">
<main>
Hello World!
</main>
<script src="/include.js?src=/footer.html">
Simple tweaks can be made to create include_once, require, and require_once, which may all be useful depending on what you're doing. Here's a brief example of what that might look like.
include_once ->
var includedCache = includedCache || new Set();
void function(script) {
const { searchParams } = new URL(script.src);
const filePath = searchParams.get('src');
if (!includedCache.has(filePath)) {
fetch(filePath).then(r => r.text()).then(content => {
includedCache.add(filePath);
script.outerHTML = content;
});
}
}(document.currentScript);
Hope it helps!
Here is a great article, You can implement common library and just use below code to import any HTML files in one line.
<head>
<link rel="import" href="warnings.html">
</head>
You can also try Google Polymer
To get Solution working you need to include the file csi.min.js, which you can locate here.
As per the example shown on GitHub, to use this library you must include the file csi.js in your page header, then you need to add the data-include attribute with its value set to the file you want to include, on the container element.
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<html>
<head>
<script src="csi.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div data-include="Test.html"></div>
</body>
</html>
... hope it helps.
There are several types of answers here, but I never found the oldest tool in the use here:
"And all the other answers didn't work for me."
<html>
<head>
<title>pagetitle</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="*" framespacing="0" border="0" frameborder="no" frameborder="0">
<frame name="includeName" src="yourfileinclude.html" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0">
</frameset>
</html>
I have a real .php page like this http://hiteachers.com/soccer_parse.php?id=5. I want to add it into a blogger.com new page (**not a new blog post, or new HTML widget **, and I've got this successfully.
https://tranbongda.blogspot.com/p/function-myfunction-window.html
I used the code like this:
<script>
var Window;
// Function that open the new Window
function windowOpen() {
Window = window.open("http://hiteachers.com/soccer_parse.php?id=5",
"_blank", "width=400, height=450");
}
// function that Closes the open Window
function windowClose() {
Window.close();
}
</script>
<button onclick="windowOpen()">Open page</button>
<button onclick="windowClose()">Close page</button>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function()
$("button").click(function(){
$("#div1").load("http://hiteachers.com/soccer_parse.php?id=5");
});
});
</script>
My expectation is that I'd like the blogger page to load the original content of the .php page immediately when the visitor visits the blogger.com page (https://tranbongda.blogspot.com/p/function-myfunction-window.html) without clicking on any button.
I have thought of creating iframe by using this:
<iframe name="Framename" src="http://hiteachers.com/soccer_parse.php?id=5" width="550" height="550" frameborder="0" scrolling="yes" style="width: 100%;"> </iframe>
But the blogger.com page does not accept it, and returns the error message like this:
This page contains HTTP resources which may cause mixed content affecting security and user experience if blog is viewed over HTTPS.
Then I moved to try this <object width="500" height="300" type="text/html" data="http://hiteachers.com/soccer_parse.php?id=5"></object> as per some bloggers' suggestions, but I still failed.
Some other bloggers suggested to use AJAX, which is very new to me.
So, is there any way to parse the provided .php page content and add it to the blogspot.com/blogger.com new page without showing the url of the .php page or window pop-ups?
Can you help me please?
Thanks
As the bloggers likely have suggested, make the PHP server a REST endpoint and access the data on the blog site with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Although today people have tended to scratch the XML part and go with JSON or something.
AJAX is accomplished by using the XMLHttpRequest object.
Mozilla's spec provides links and stuff which will show you how to use it
and w3schools is a good resource.
Then it's all comes down to editing the page directly
element.removeChild(element.lastChild);
element.appendAdjacentHTML('beforeend',xhr.responseText);
I want javascript to load a html code so it can be embedded in a page, all I get is the raw html code without being compiled.
<script>
document.write('http://www.example.com/index.php?title=Media:Object4&action=raw&ctype=html')
</script>
It contains the html coding inside and I want it to embed in pages so I can share with other websites.
Are you trying to get the HTML from that URL and embed it in the page? JavaScript can't do that for security reasons, but if you're using PHP server-side you can use:
echo file_get_contents("http://..........");
Or you can use an iframe:
<iframe src="http://........" />
The easiest way to make this work, sort of, is by using <iframe>:
<iframe src="http://www.example.com/index.php?title=Media:Object4&action=raw&ctype=html"></iframe>
If you want to load it inside a particular container, you have to perform a web request using JavaScript; jQuery example:
<div id="container"></div>
<script>
$('#container').load('http://www.example.com/index.php?title=Media:Object4&action=raw&ctype=html');
</script>
If the remote URL is not in the same domain, you need to use a proxy:
<script>
$('#container').load('/path/to/myproxy.php', {
url: 'http://www.example.com/index.php?title=Media:Object4&action=raw&ctype=html'
});
</script>
Then your PHP code could look like:
<?php
if (parse_url($_POST['url'], PHP_URL_HOST) === 'www.example.com') {
echo file_get_contents($_POST['url']);
}
document.write - adds text to the document - it does not fetch documents from the web.
However, you can use the object tag.
It should look something like that:
<object type="text/html" data="http://www.example.com/index.php?title=Media:Object4&action=raw&ctype=html" style="width:100%; height:100%"></object>
Additionally, if the page that you are fetching is on the same domain, you can use AJAX to fetch it.
Here's a situation. My customers would be having their own web pages. On that page they might have an iFrame in which they can show a page located on my server. Outside the iFrame they would have simple buttons, which when clicked should execute javascript functions in iFrame.
So basically the code of customer's web page on customer's domain would be something like this
<input type="button" value="Say Hi" id="TestButton">
<iframe src="myserver.com/some_html_page.htm" width="800" height="550"></iframe>
And code of myserver.com/some_html_page.htm would be
$("#TestButton").click(function(){
alert("Hi");
});
I did my reserach and I am aware of the Browser Security issues, but I want to know is there any way to handle this, may be with json or something ?
As you can already tell (given the parent and child are on different domains), you definitely cannot reach up from the child iFrame into the parent to listen for events.
One way around this is to pass messages between the pages. This will require your clients to include additional javascript in their page as well as the iFrame which points to your server. This is supported in native javascript with postMessage, but including the library #Mark Price suggests will make your life much easier.
So here goes an example:
Clients Page:
...
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.postMessage.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#TestButton").click(function(){
jQuery.postMessage("say_hi", "myserver.com/some_html_page.htm");
});
});
</script>
</head>
<input type="button" value="Say Hi" id="TestButton">
<iframe src="myserver.com/some_html_page.htm"></iframe>
Code on myserver.com/some_html_page.htm:
...
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.postMessage.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
// you will need to set this dynamically, perhaps by having your
// clients pass it into the URL of the iFrame,
// e.g. <iframe src="myserver.com/some_html_page.htm?source_url=..
var source_origin = "clients_page.com/index.html";
var messageHandler = function (data) {
// process 'data' to decide what action to take...
alert("Hi");
};
$.receiveMessage(messageHandler, source_origin);
</script>
</head>
Probably it would be nice to bundle the client code up into a single library that they could include, so your clients aren't burdened with writing their own javascript.
As a caveat, I wrote this code off the top of my head and it is likely be rife with typos. I have used this library before to accomplish similar goals, and I hope this answer is a useful jumping off point for you (along with the plugin documentation).
Let me know if I can clarify anything, and best of luck! :)
You could try this jquery plugin from Ben Alman, providing you can have the plugin running on both yours, and your clients servers - see the examples for ways to execute js cross domain :
http://benalman.com/code/projects/jquery-postmessage/docs/files/jquery-ba-postmessage-js.html
Lets consider if you have a function called test() which loads under Iframe, then you can access that test() function as below
document.getElementsByName("name of iframe")[0].contentWindow.functionName()
e.g.
document.getElementsByName("iframe1")[0].contentWindow.test()
One of the common patterns of doing cross-domain requests, is using JSONP.