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What's the best and most secure way to take a fragment of html from one document and add it to another html document with Javascript? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/webdev

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I'm not new to programming, but I am somewhat new to web development and I'm trying to figure out the most preferred way of taking a standalone header from one html document and adding it to other html documents without code duplication. If possible I want to do this with Javascript so I can learn with more basic tools before expanding further.

I've researched this a fair bit, but the advice is a bit confusing since it either seems out of date or possibly not the most secure way of handling things. Is there a preferred way of doing something like this?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still new to this, so I might be getting things backwards, but I think I've recently done what you're looking for.

I'm making a web app for a small music festival, and was duplicating the page links on every page, and having to update them all every time something changed. I found a technique online to put the links into a header.js file, then just call the script in every new page. I did the same with the footer, and created a template for a blank page with the html that couldn't go into the header.

I'm not near my computer to get the site with the instructions, but my Github is here if it helps. Just bear in mind that I'm new, so might not have done it in the best way

https://github.com/Tippon/Cwmfest-test

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is pretty much what I was looking to do. Thanks! It's nice to see a working example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Brilliant, glad I could help :)