I'm trying to use an HTML template as a frame, and want to load the content inside of it depending on the route.
I'm used to PHP, so I know the require($file) option embeded in the code so it will render the needed file inside of the template, so I'd like to know if there is any thing similar to it.
I've tried to search about it, but it isn't that clear. So I've thought in two options, the first one is to split the template in two parts, and put the file content in between these two when sending the response.
This is what I am aiming for in the main HTML file and be able to render it in the NodeJS response.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My App</h1>
{ require($file); }
</body>
</html>
Easy way is to read the template (with some placeholders for the variable text) into a variable. Then read the text that you want to put into the placeholders into another variable. Then just replace the placeholders. Output the final string.
You can use https://www.npmjs.com/package/mustache to render templates in node - it includes partial HTML templates and should feel familiar to your PHP experience.
(Just to answer you question directly - no, HTML by itself is static, and with exception of iframe, there is no safe way to include partial HTML within another HTML page.)
you can use the iframe HTML object to embed it inside your file
<iframe src="<source html file location>"></iframe>
No. There's no way to add a 'variable' in HTML since HTMl it static. You need a dynamic language for that such as:
mustache.js
handlebars.js
pug/jade
Or if you're feeling really passionate about web development, and you are willing to begin hating html, then you should defiantly check out:
react.js Personal Favorite
angular
Let me know if you have any questions!!
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** This is just a theoretical question **
If I have a website containing, for example:
<head>
<style>
body {
background-color: red;
}
</style>
</head
<body>
<p>blah</p>
</body>
And embed it in another website, that has a white background, using an iframe, could I use the css in the iframe to format the current website to give it a red background. Thanks in advance
Personaly I think it is not possible directly. Because the DOM-Elements are different. Your own website has some DOM-tree you have formated it with your own CSS.
The included iframe website has an own different DOM-tree.
I think the iframe is not the right way for that. If it's possible, you can read and parse the output source code of your iframe website and modify it via php.
Or with Javascript Inspired from here:
How to change content of website loaded in iframe?
For php you can use that snippet:
$iframe_source = file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/');
Look here at the php documentation for more information:
https://www.php.net/manual/de/function.file-get-contents.php
Now you can echo and modify also the DOM-tree of the iframe-page. You've got the content and output from the page. You only need to echo $iframe_source.
Than you can use your CSS file and take the .class or id of the element which you want to format.
It has some advantages but also some disadvantages:
advantages
content of iframe is also indexable
better than iframe
you can modify it
its JavaScript free
disadvantes
you need php and an server which allows file get contents
maybe some dynamic elements in the iframe wont work
Update because it's some special case:
itty.bitty.site is very different idea from normal webpages, you can finde something about the technique behind here:
https://itty.bitty.site/#How_it_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 there is some base64encoding ans some differnt algorithm. Maybe you can ask the dev directly on
Maybe you can use some javascript to decrypt the base64 encoded strings:
But if you read the code with file_get_contents, you only get advice that you should activate javascript. That won't work ;(
The source of this itty-bitty you can find here: https://github.com/alcor/itty-bitty
Does HTML support splitting source over multiple files? I'm looking for some equivalent of C++'s #include; or maybe something like C#'s partial; an element that could take source path and inject the file contents at that place.
Apologies if this has been asked before. Google and SO searches didn't return much. I'm not a web guy, but the only solution I found was using an iframe, which many people do not like for various reasons.
It is just that my html source is becoming huge and I want to manage it by splitting into multiple files.
You can't, at least not in flat-HTML. What you can do is using Javascript to load and place the snippets. iframes are also non-ideal because contrary to what happens with directives like #include and partial, those snippets will never be compiled in one single page.
However, I think it's important here to understand how your pages will be served. Is this a static website? Because in this case I would write a simple script in your language of choice to compile the page. Let's say that you have a base like this:
<html>
<head>
<!-- ... -->
</head>
<body>
{{ parts/navigation.html }}
<!-- ... -->
</body>
</html>
You could write a script that runs through this file line by line and loads the content into a variable named, for example, compiled_html. When it finds {{ file }} it opens file, reads its content and append it to compiled_html. When it gets to the end, it writes the content of the variable into a HTML file. How you would implement it depends on the languages you know. I'm sure that it's pretty straightforward to do it in C#.
This way you'll be able to split the source of your HTML pages into multiple files (and reuse some parts if you need them), but you'll still end up with fully functional single files.
It is easily possible, if you are running PHP:
The PHP Language has the "include" command built in.
Therefore you can have your "index.php" (note you have to change the suffix, for the PHP parser to kick-in) and simply use following syntax.
<html>
<head>
[...] (header content you want to set or use)
</head>
<body>
<?php
include "relative/path/to/your/firstfile.html";
include "relative/path/to/your/secondfile.html";
include "relative/path/to/your/evenwithothersuffix/thirdfile.php";
include "relative/path/to/your/fourth/file/in/another/folder.html";
?>
[...] (other source code you whish to use in the HTML body part)
</body>
</html>
Basically making you main index.php file a container-file and the included html files the components, which you like to maintain seperately.
For further reading I recommend the PHP Manual and the W3Schools Include Page.
not possible with static html.
in general, this problem (lazy-fetching of content) is solved with a template processor.
two options:
template processor runs on the server side
any language
static website generators, server side rendering
template processor runs on the client side
javascript
web frameworks
Okay, my english is not the greatest so I apologize in advance. Question is really stupid and I dont know how that is called but I will try to explain it here better. So I am making a template for one restourant and menus are changing every week. So is it possible to write paragraphs somewhere else ( in separated place (external or internal)) and then "call them" somewhere in .html.
Example. making methods in C# and then calling them anywhere when we want to
In my opinion the simplest method will be to use php.
Then in place with menu you can only use something like this:
<?php inlcude('menus/file.php');
And on server create a folder menus where you wil put php files with html.
All files can be simple html. There is no need to learn php just in place you want to call a file use code i placed earlier.
HTML doesn't have a good way to achieve this (although iframe exists).
This sort of thing is generally handled by software that generates the HTML, either when the page is requested (via something like the very basic SSI support in some webservers to full on server side programming (which you could use C# for)) or at publication time (via a build tool such as Gulp).
You could use jQuery to achieve it (if it is a simple website and simple menu), read more the related function on http://api.jquery.com/load/
You may also read a simple here: HTML File including another HTML file
I may also include a very basic example for you
main.html
<body>
<header>Some header</header>
<content>
<main class="the-menu"></main>
</content>
<script>
$(".the-menu").load("menu.html");
</script>
</body>
I am developing a project and find that there are elements that are common to all pages, I wonder if there is any way to define these elements generally and call them from your html to avoid having to define each of the pages. thank you very much for your help
test.html
<div>Menu</div>
When you need to have this menu, just call this code in your page:
$('#result').load('ajax/test.html', function() {
alert('Load was performed.');
});
load()
Another option could be AngularJS, or just something like includes with PHP.
I don't know any way to do exactly this with pure HTML, but by mixing in a little server side script, you can. Just to give you an idea what it would look like:
This example uses PHP. If you are on a Microsoft server, you would need to translate this example into .NET or .aspx.
First, save the following to a file called "mytest.php" in the same folder as your other pages. (You can put it in a subfolder if you wish, but for this example I will keep it simple).
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
Just one line for this test. A little useless, but you can see the point.
Now, in the <head> tag of your HTML, you can do this (I added the <head> tags just so you can see it... You would not want to have TWO sets of <head> tags.)
<head>
<?php include 'mytest.php'; ?>
</head>
Now, visit the page and display the HTML and you should see that line incorporated into your HTML. Note that any document that contains PHP code (as above) must end with a .php extension.
As #loops suggested, I would highly recommend AngularJS for the rescue.
It's a great MVC framework built with JavaScript and no external dependencies.
It offers the possibility to create custom elements using their Directives
So you could create a new element <mymenu></mymenu> and you can give this new tag some behaviour as well as bind events to it.
AngularJS takes care of all the rest and your new tag will be available across all the pages of your application.
And yes, you are correct thinking that should be done on the client side rather than server side.
I am happy to provide a full working example for you once you get your head around the framework first. Otherwise I think it will be too much information at once ;)
I have two HTML source files. One called index.html and the other embed.html, but I want to embed the second file inside the index one, using HTML this is possible? If not, maybe using JavaScript or VBScript?
You can use an IFrame.
In general, if both documents are valid documents, you cannot simply drop the content of one into another and expect the result to be valid HTML (for example, you will end up with two <body> tags (either nested or not), which is not valid HTML.
This is why frames exist, though they are not very user friendly.
In jQuery, I would use $.load()