I have an application which has almost 30 html\'s and they share some common code to which i f i made any changes i need to change it on every page. Below is the piece of code w
There are several ways you can achieve this inclusion to keep your code more maintainable.
Of course the first that comes to mind is if you want to use PHP is the usage of include() which includes and evaluates the code in your external file or script.
You can use it as such:
Note! Be careful: your container file must be a .php
file in order for this directive to be evaluated from the server. You don't need to do anything but changing the file extension, for that to happen. And, of course, make sure that your server can parse PHP.
Also, beware of the difference with include_once(), which I would not recommend in this case.
If you don't want to use PHP, you can do that very simple and clean with a Server side include[Wikipedia]. An SSI looks like an HTML comment:
Note! You will have to make sure to have mod_include installed and enabled in your Apache server, and to add the following directive either in your httpd.conf
or .htaccess
file:
Options +Includes
Read the doc link above for more information.
Your question actually specifies to do this in JS or jQuery. Not sure if it does because you were not aware of the server-side options, or if you really wanted a client-side one. In any case, there are also some client-side solutions.
Given the possibility, I would recommend the server-side solutions to your problem.
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Convert the code into a Javascript file and instruct the file to insert the content into the DOM. Here is an example
external.js
var element = '';
container.html
jQuery can help you deal with some AJAX calls easily. You could use jQuery.get() or jQuery.load(). I would suggest you use the latter, as load()
injects the loaded element directly into the DOM, and also as you can specify exactly which part to load, which is nifty especially if you would like to store all your includes in one external HTML file.
jQuery(document).ready(function ($){
$('#containing-element').load('your.html');
});