I am trying to inject some React code into an HTML document. I am following React's own documentation and feeding their starter code (a simple like button) into the page. Everything was working great. I changed it to use JSX, changed it to a functional component using hooks instead of a class component with state. No problems.
However, whenever I include an import call and try to bring in another component, the component breaks on the page and stops displaying, but doesn't throw any kind of error I can see.
How do I develop in a "react-y" way with components and modularity while injecting it into an html page?
Here is the code I'm working with at the moment:
HTML document
<body>
<div id="react-root"></div>
<!-- inject react, reactDOM and JSX engine -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/react#16/umd/react.development.js" crossorigin></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom#16/umd/react-dom.development.js" crossorigin></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/babel-standalone#6/babel.min.js"></script>
<!-- point to component -->
<script src="transpiled/app.js"></script>
</body>
React Component
'use strict';
import {SecondComponent} from './components/SecondComponent';
const e = React.createElement;
const LikeButton = () => {
const [liked, setLiked] = React.useState(false);
if (liked) return 'You liked this functional component.'
const handleLikeClick = () => {
setLiked(true);
}
return (
<div>
<button onClick={handleLikeClick}>new like button with jsx</button>
{liked && <SecondComponent/>}
</div>
)
}
const domContainer = document.querySelector('#react-root');
ReactDOM.render(e(LikeButton), domContainer);
Like I said, any sort of import statement seems to be where it breaks. Can't find resources online about it. Thanks in advance for your help!
UPDATE: After a bit of research importing modules between several <script> tags is now possible.
This can be achieved adding the Babel Plugin attribute data-plugins and setting the value to "transform-es2015-modules-umd" which will enable the UMD pattern.
You'll also need to set type="text/babel" on each <script> tag.
This will allow you to use the import statements directly inside each file. Like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>React</title>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/react#16/umd/react.development.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom#16/umd/react-dom.development.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/babel-standalone#6/babel.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="root"></div>
<script data-plugins="transform-es2015-modules-umd" type="text/babel" src="./Header.js"></script>
<script data-plugins="transform-es2015-modules-umd" type="text/babel" src="./App.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Working Gist Example
I want to create common header and footer pages that are included on several html pages.
I'd like to use javascript. Is there a way to do this using only html and JavaScript?
I want to load a header and footer page within another html page.
You can accomplish this with jquery.
Place this code in index.html
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script
src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.js"
integrity="sha256-2Kok7MbOyxpgUVvAk/HJ2jigOSYS2auK4Pfzbm7uH60="
crossorigin="anonymous">
</script>
<script>
$(function(){
$("#header").load("header.html");
$("#footer").load("footer.html");
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header"></div>
<!--Remaining section-->
<div id="footer"></div>
</body>
</html>
and put this code in header.html and footer.html, at the same location as index.html
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Now, when you visit index.html, you should be able to click the link tags.
I add common parts as header and footer using Server Side Includes. No HTML and no JavaScript is needed. Instead, the webserver automatically adds the included code before doing anything else.
Just add the following line where you want to include your file:
<!--#include file="include_head.html" -->
Must you use html file structure with JavaScript? Have you considered using PHP instead so that you can use simple PHP include object?
If you convert the file names of your .html pages to .php - then at the top of each of your .php pages you can use one line of code to include the content from your header.php
<?php include('header.php'); ?>
Do the same in the footer of each page to include the content from your footer.php file
<?php include('footer.php'); ?>
No JavaScript / Jquery or additional included files required.
NB You could also convert your .html files to .php files using the following in your .htaccess file
# re-write html to php
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
# re-write no extension to .php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]
You could also put: (load_essentials.js:)
document.getElementById("myHead").innerHTML =
"<span id='headerText'>Title</span>"
+ "<span id='headerSubtext'>Subtitle</span>";
document.getElementById("myNav").innerHTML =
"<ul id='navLinks'>"
+ "<li><a href='index.html'>Home</a></li>"
+ "<li><a href='about.html'>About</a>"
+ "<li><a href='donate.html'>Donate</a></li>"
+ "</ul>";
document.getElementById("myFooter").innerHTML =
"<p id='copyright'>Copyright © " + new Date().getFullYear() + " You. All"
+ " rights reserved.</p>"
+ "<p id='credits'>Layout by You</p>"
+ "<p id='contact'><a href='mailto:you#you.com'>Contact Us</a> / "
+ "<a href='mailto:you#you.com'>Report a problem.</a></p>";
<!--HTML-->
<header id="myHead"></header>
<nav id="myNav"></nav>
Content
<footer id="myFooter"></footer>
<script src="load_essentials.js"></script>
I tried this:
Create a file header.html like
<!-- Meta -->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<!-- JS -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/lib/jquery-1.11.1.min.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/lib/angular.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/lib/angular-resource.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/lib/angular-route.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap.min.css">
<title>Your application</title>
Now include header.html in your HTML pages like:
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/lib/jquery-1.11.1.min.js" ></script>
<script>
$(function(){ $("head").load("header.html") });
</script>
</head>
Works perfectly fine.
I've been working in C#/Razor and since I don't have IIS setup on my home laptop I looked for a javascript solution to load in views while creating static markup for our project.
I stumbled upon a website explaining methods of "ditching jquery," it demonstrates a method on the site does exactly what you're after in plain Jane javascript (reference link at the bottom of post). Be sure to investigate any security vulnerabilities and compatibility issues if you intend to use this in production. I am not, so I never looked into it myself.
JS Function
var getURL = function (url, success, error) {
if (!window.XMLHttpRequest) return;
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (request.readyState === 4) {
if (request.status !== 200) {
if (error && typeof error === 'function') {
error(request.responseText, request);
}
return;
}
if (success && typeof success === 'function') {
success(request.responseText, request);
}
}
};
request.open('GET', url);
request.send();
};
Get the content
getURL(
'/views/header.html',
function (data) {
var el = document.createElement(el);
el.innerHTML = data;
var fetch = el.querySelector('#new-header');
var embed = document.querySelector('#header');
if (!fetch || !embed) return;
embed.innerHTML = fetch.innerHTML;
}
);
index.html
<!-- This element will be replaced with #new-header -->
<div id="header"></div>
views/header.html
<!-- This element will replace #header -->
<header id="new-header"></header>
The source is not my own, I'm merely referencing it as it's a good vanilla javascript solution to the OP. Original code lives here: http://gomakethings.com/ditching-jquery#get-html-from-another-page
The question asks about using only HTML and JavaScript. The problem is that a second request to the server using JavaScript or even jQuery (requesting the extra header.html "later") is:
Slow!
So, this is unacceptable in a production environment. The way to go is to include only one .js file and serve your HTML template using only this .js file. So, in your HTML you can have:
<script defer src="header.js"></script>
<header id="app-header"></header>
And then, in your header.js put your template. Use backticks for this HTML string:
let appHeader = `
<nav>
/*navigation or other html content here*/
</nav>
`;
document.getElementById("app-header").innerHTML = appHeader;
This has also the benefit, that you can change the content of your template dynamically if you need! (If you want your code clean, my recommendation is not to include any other code in this header.js file.)
Explanation about speed
In the HTTP/2 world, the web server "undestands" what additional files (.css, .js, etc) should be sent along with a specific .html, and sends them altogether in the initial response. But, if in your "original" .html you do not have this header.html file imported (because you intend to call it later with a script), it won't be sent initially. So, when your JavaScript/jQuery requests it (this will happen much later, when HTML and your JavaScript will get "interpreted"), your browser will send a second request to the server, wait for the answer, and then do its stuff... That's why this is slow. You can validate this, using any browser's developer tools, watching the header.html coming much later.
So, as a general advice (there are a lot of exceptions of course), import all your additional files in your original .html (or php) file if you care about speed. Use defer if needed. Do not import any files later using JavaScript.
I think, answers to this question are too old... currently some desktop and mobile browsers support HTML Templates for doing this.
I've built a little example:
Tested OK in Chrome 61.0, Opera 48.0, Opera Neon 1.0, Android Browser 6.0, Chrome Mobile 61.0 and Adblocker Browser 54.0
Tested KO in Safari 10.1, Firefox 56.0, Edge 38.14 and IE 11
More compatibility info in canisue.com
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>HTML Template Example</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
<link rel="import" href="autoload-template.html">
</head>
<body>
<div class="template-container">1</div>
<div class="template-container">2</div>
<div class="template-container">3</div>
<div class="template-container">4</div>
<div class="template-container">5</div>
</body>
</html>
autoload-template.html
<span id="template-content">
Template Hello World!
</span>
<script>
var me = document.currentScript.ownerDocument;
var post = me.querySelector( '#template-content' );
var container = document.querySelectorAll( '.template-container' );
//alert( container.length );
for(i=0; i<container.length ; i++) {
container[i].appendChild( post.cloneNode( true ) );
}
</script>
styles.css
#template-content {
color: red;
}
.template-container {
background-color: yellow;
color: blue;
}
Your can get more examples in this HTML5 Rocks post
Aloha from 2018. Unfortunately, I don't have anything cool or futuristic to share with you.
I did however want to point out to those who have commented that the jQuery load() method isn't working in the present are probably trying to use the method with local files without running a local web server. Doing so will throw the above mentioned "cross origin" error, which specifies that cross origin requests such as that made by the load method are only supported for protocol schemes like http, data, or https. (I'm assuming that you're not making an actual cross-origin request, i.e the header.html file is actually on the same domain as the page you're requesting it from)
So, if the accepted answer above isn't working for you, please make sure you're running a web server. The quickest and simplest way to do that if you're in a rush (and using a Mac, which has Python pre-installed) would be to spin up a simple Python http server. You can see how easy it is to do that here.
I hope this helps!
It is also possible to load scripts and links into the header.
I'll be adding it one of the examples above...
<!--load_essentials.js-->
document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css" />');
document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" />');
document.write('<script src="js/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>');
document.getElementById("myHead").innerHTML =
"<span id='headerText'>Title</span>"
+ "<span id='headerSubtext'>Subtitle</span>";
document.getElementById("myNav").innerHTML =
"<ul id='navLinks'>"
+ "<li><a href='index.html'>Home</a></li>"
+ "<li><a href='about.html'>About</a>"
+ "<li><a href='donate.html'>Donate</a></li>"
+ "</ul>";
document.getElementById("myFooter").innerHTML =
"<p id='copyright'>Copyright © " + new Date().getFullYear() + " You. All"
+ " rights reserved.</p>"
+ "<p id='credits'>Layout by You</p>"
+ "<p id='contact'><a href='mailto:you#you.com'>Contact Us</a> / "
+ "<a href='mailto:you#you.com'>Report a problem.</a></p>";
<!--HTML-->
<header id="myHead"></header>
<nav id="myNav"></nav>
Content
<footer id="myFooter"></footer>
<script src="load_essentials.js"></script>
For a quick setup with plain javascript and because not answered yet, you could also use a .js file to store your redundant pieces (templates) of HTML inside a variable and insert it through innerHTML.
backticks are here the make it easy part this answer is about.
(you will also want to follow the link on that backticks SO Q/A if you read & test that answer).
example for a navbar that remains the same on each page :
<nav role="navigation">
<img src="image.png" alt="Home"/>
<a href="/about.html" >About</a>
<a href="/services.html" >Services</a>
<a href="/pricing.html" >Pricing</a>
<a href="/contact.html" >Contact Us</a>
</nav>
You can keep inside your HTMl :
<nav role="navigation"></nav>
and set inside nav.js file the content of <nav> as a variable in between backticks:
const nav= `
<img src="image.png" alt="Home"/>
<a href="/about.html" >About</a>
<a href="/services.html" >Services</a>
<a href="/pricing.html" >Pricing</a>
<a href="/contact.html" >Contact Us</a>
` ;
Now you have a small file from which you can retrieve a variable containing HTML. It looks very similar to include.php and can easily be updated without messing it up (what's inside the backticks).
You can now link that file like any other javascript file and innerHTML the var nav inside <nav role="navigation"></nav> via
let barnav = document.querySelector('nav[role="navigation"]');
barnav.innerHTML = nav;
If you add or remove pages, you only have to update once nav.js
basic HTML page can be :
// code standing inside nav.js for easy edit
const nav = `
<img src="image.png" alt="Home"/>
<a href="/about.html" >About</a>
<a href="/services.html" >Services</a>
<a href="/pricing.html" >Pricing</a>
<a href="/contact.html" >Contact Us</a>
`;
nav[role="navigation"] {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-around;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Home</title>
<!-- update title if not home page -->
<meta name="description" content=" HTML5 ">
<meta name="author" content="MasterOfMyComputer">
<script src="nav.js"></script>
<!-- load an html template through a variable -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/styles.css?v=1.0">
</head>
<body>
<nav role="navigation">
<!-- it will be loaded here -->
</nav>
<h1>Home</h1>
<!-- update h1 if not home page -->
<script>
// this part can also be part of nav.js
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
let barnav = document.querySelector('nav[role="navigation"]');
barnav.innerHTML = nav;
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
This quick example works & can be copy/paste then edited to change variable names and variable HTML content.
another approach made available since this question was first asked is to use reactrb-express (see http://reactrb.org) This will let you script in ruby on the client side, replacing your html code with react components written in ruby.
Use ajax
main.js
fetch("./includes/header.html")
.then(response => {
return response.text();
})
.then(data => {
document.querySelector("header").innerHTML = data;
});
fetch("./includes/footer.html")
.then(response => {
return response.text();
})
.then(data => {
document.querySelector("footer").innerHTML = data;
});
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Liks</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/styles.css">
</head>
<body>
<header></header>
<main></main>
<footer></footer>
<script src="/js/main.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
You can use object tag of HTML with out use of JavaScript.
<object data="header.html" type="text/html" height="auto"></object>
Credits : W3 Schools How to Include HTML
Save the HTML you want to include in an .html file:
Content.html
Google Maps<br>
Animated Buttons<br>
Modal Boxes<br>
Animations<br>
Progress Bars<br>
Hover Dropdowns<br>
Click Dropdowns<br>
Responsive Tables<br>
Include the HTML
Including HTML is done by using a w3-include-html attribute:
Example
<div w3-include-html="content.html"></div>
Add the JavaScript
HTML includes are done by JavaScript.
<script>
function includeHTML() {
var z, i, elmnt, file, xhttp;
/*loop through a collection of all HTML elements:*/
z = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
for (i = 0; i < z.length; i++) {
elmnt = z[i];
/*search for elements with a certain atrribute:*/
file = elmnt.getAttribute("w3-include-html");
if (file) {
/*make an HTTP request using the attribute value as the file name:*/
xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4) {
if (this.status == 200) {elmnt.innerHTML = this.responseText;}
if (this.status == 404) {elmnt.innerHTML = "Page not found.";}
/*remove the attribute, and call this function once more:*/
elmnt.removeAttribute("w3-include-html");
includeHTML();
}
}
xhttp.open("GET", file, true);
xhttp.send();
/*exit the function:*/
return;
}
}
}
</script>
Call includeHTML() at the bottom of the page:
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<script>
function includeHTML() {
var z, i, elmnt, file, xhttp;
/*loop through a collection of all HTML elements:*/
z = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
for (i = 0; i < z.length; i++) {
elmnt = z[i];
/*search for elements with a certain atrribute:*/
file = elmnt.getAttribute("w3-include-html");
if (file) {
/*make an HTTP request using the attribute value as the file name:*/
xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4) {
if (this.status == 200) {elmnt.innerHTML = this.responseText;}
if (this.status == 404) {elmnt.innerHTML = "Page not found.";}
/*remove the attribute, and call this function once more:*/
elmnt.removeAttribute("w3-include-html");
includeHTML();
}
}
xhttp.open("GET", file, true);
xhttp.send();
/*exit the function:*/
return;
}
}
};
</script>
<body>
<div w3-include-html="h1.html"></div>
<div w3-include-html="content.html"></div>
<script>
includeHTML();
</script>
</body>
</html>
My PHP is working fine and I appear to be getting back the correct JSON data for FLOT, but I'm still getting a blank chart :-/
Here's the PHP:
foreach($result as $row) { //or whatever
$dataset1[] = array((int) $row['INDX'], (int) $row['RUNTIME'] );
}
echo json_encode($dataset1);
Here's a sample of the JSON it returns:
[[31,2303],[113,5697],[201,4485],[151,4404],[192,2668],[84,1082],[13,6003],[68,3628],[12,2115]]
Here's the function to plot:
$(function () {
$.plot($("#dashboard_div"), apudata);
console.log(apudata);
});
The console log shows correctly formatted JSON as above. I can cut and paste from the console log into a literal variable for that function and it works, but passing the JSON as a variable doesn't.
Ideas?Help?
Try using the code below. Set the 1000 (ms) interval to however often you want the graph to update. This is simply (very slightly edited) code from one of my previous posts that I put in the comments.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>AJAX FLOT</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="../../jquery.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="../../jquery.flot.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="../../jquery.flot.time.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="placeholder" style="width: 100%;height: 600px;"></div>
<div id="div" style="width: 100%; height: 100px;"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var options = {
lines: {
show: true
},
points: {
show: true
},
xaxis: {
mode: "time"
}
};
window.setInterval(function(){
$.getJSON('http://localhost/data.php', function (csv) {
dataOne = csv;
var plot = $.plot($('#placeholder'), [dataOne], options);
});
}, 1000);
</script>
</html>
Not sure if it matters, but the flot docs say to just pass the selector as a string to $.plot(), and not a jQuery object. So instead of
$.plot($('#dashboard_div'), apudata);
try
$.plot('#dashboard_div', apudata);
I have file named a.html with this code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<title>Restaurant Gaststätte Gartenfreunde-Ehningen</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="generator" content="iloapp 2.1"/>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="//ilostatic.one.com/iloapp/gallery/images/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon"/>
</head>
<body>
<script>
(function () {
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = '//ilostatic.one.com/iloapp/gallery/js/init.js?' + (new Date).getTime();
document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(script);
})();
</script>
<noscript><iframe src="//ilostatic.one.com/iloapp/gallery/html/nojs_1_en-US.html" frameBorder="0" style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></iframe></noscript>
</body>
</html>
It`s for a galerie who look like this: link
I want to include this here: link
Need some help here.
If you are using Jquery you can do the following:
<html>
<head>
<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script>
$(function(){
$("#includedContent").load("b.html");
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="includedContent"></div>
</body>
</html>
If you are looking to do raw Javascript DOM then you can do the following:
function loadDoc() {
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = xhttp.responseText;
}
}
xhttp.open("GET", "b.html", true);
xhttp.send();
}
You could include an HTML code from another file without scripting using SSI (Sever
Side Includes).
Just name your file with .shtml extension and write something like at the place you want to include your file (e.g. index.html):
<!--#include virtual="/galerie/index.html" -->
Usually SSI works in .shtml files by default without any configuration.
Web server will work up .shtml file, looks for SSI directives inside it and process them.
I've succesfull integrated galerie in script. :) Thanks all guys for youre tips. I've used iframe . Finaly worked
is it possible to reference / import a file that is inside the script.
test.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/script/css/add-ons.css">
<script src="/testsrc.html"></script>
</head>
<body onLoad="onLoad()">
<div>
<p id='result'>....</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
testsrc.html
function onLoad(){
document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = "ran";
}
You could do:
<?!= HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile('testsrc').getContent() ?>
instead of
<script src="/testsrc.html"></script>
Don't forget to wrap all your js code in testsrc.html file in <script></script>
PS: better yet in your code.gs file create an include() function like this
function include(filename) {
return HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile(filename).getContent();
}
then you can call it any time you need to include any file:
<?!= include('testsrc') ?>