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How to stream new data to clients browser when index.html change, without the need of refreshing or reloading the web page

I am new on Html. What i need is this.
I have an index.html file on a server which is blank.
I open it and write some text inside the body all the time.
What i want is that when i save the html,
the new data to appear on my clients browser
without the need to refresh or reload the page.
I have no idea on how to do it,so i haven't try anything.
Is it possible? Is it simple?

This is a sample javascript code to read an online url and update the content container with the result.
I couldn't find a simple live update page so used my own website readme in github...
var timeout = 2000,
index = 1,
cancel = false,
url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/petjofi/krivoshiev.com/master/README.md';
function update() {
updateIndex();
load(url, done);
if (!cancel) setTimeout(update, timeout);
}
function updateIndex() {
document.getElementById("index").innerHTML = index++;
}
function done(result) {
document.getElementById("content").innerHTML = result;
}
function load(url, callback) {
var xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4 && xmlHttp.status == 200)
callback(xmlHttp.responseText);
}
xmlHttp.open("GET", url, true); // true for asynchronous
xmlHttp.send(null);
}
<button onclick="update()">start</button>
<button onclick="cancel=true">stop</button>
<span>updating: <span id="index">0</span></span>
<div style="margin-top: 20px" id="content"></div>

Chrome Extension: WebQL database is not appearing in Inspector

I am trying to create database and tables in background.js file of Chrome but somehow it's not being created. When I see in Chrome Inspector > Resources > WebSQL, I find nothing. Code is given below:
function fetchData(){
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("GET", "http://localhost/php/fetch.php", true);
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
// JSON.parse does not evaluate the attacker's scripts.
var resp = xhr.responseText;
if(resp != null) {
var json = JSON.parse(resp)
console.log(resp);
var data = json['data'];
if(data != null) {
openDatabase('documents', '1.0', 'my storage', 5*1024*1024, function (db) {
alert('Called'); //This is not being called.
});
//var dbConnection = openDbConnect();
//createTable(dbConnection);
//Code below is called
for(var a=0;a <= data.length;a++) {
alert(data[a].title);
}
}
}
}
}
xhr.send();
}
Update
I guess it's being created: My Extension ID is bkjajbjnoadlhnhmfekipifehbhgidpg
In ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/databases I find:
chrome-extension_bkjajbjnoadlhnhmfekipifehbhgidpg_0
But it's weird I can't see it in Inspector.
Update #2
Turns out that like pages, WebSQL is not visible across Chrome. It shows Db to the page which is visited. Now I am getting no idea how to excess chrome related Db in Viewer.

To access the inspector for the background page of your app, go to Menu>Settings>Extensions and make sure it's in Developer Mode. It should have a link to inspect the background page of your app in there. It will open up in a new window.

OAuth Flow not working when using Promise

I am building a simple chrome extension which integrates with Twitter using OAuth. I have slightly modified the Chrome OAuth Tutorial to integrate with Twitter. The extension is build in Reactjs+Flux.
When the user clicks on "Sign in with Twitter" button, an Action signin is triggered, which is declared as follows:
signin: function(){
ChromeUtils.connecttotwitter().then(alert("Step After Then"));
AppDispatcher.dispatch({actionType:TweetSmartActions.SIGN_IN,signedInTwitterUserId: response.user_id});
},
The ChromeUtils.connecttotwitter() is defined as follows:
var ChromeUtils = {
connecttotwitter: function () {
return new Promise(function(fulfill,reject){
var request = {
type : "background.twitterRequestToken",
};
alert("Before sendMessage");
chrome.runtime.sendMessage(request, function(response) {
if (response)
{
fulfill(response);
}
else
{
reject(response);
}
});
});
},
And the event listener onMessage is defined in the background.js as:
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(function (request, sender, sendResponse) {
console.log("background.js: " + JSON.stringify(request));
var type = request.type;
if (type == "background.twitterRequestToken")
{
oauth.authorize(function(token,secret,userId,screenname){
sendResponse({success:true,userId:userId,screenName:screenname});
});
alert("Alerting before returning true");
return true;
}
When I click on the "Sign In With Twitter" button, the authentication flow does start and a new page opens. However, after I introduced the Promise, the new page does not redirect to the twitter oauth page. In fact, to debug that I have put the following alert statements in chrome_ex_oauth.js:
ChromeExOAuth.prototype.initOAuthFlow = function(callback) {
if (!this.hasToken()) {
var params = ChromeExOAuth.getQueryStringParams();
if (params['chromeexoauthcallback'] == 'true') {
var oauth_token = params['oauth_token'];
var oauth_verifier = params['oauth_verifier']
this.getAccessToken(oauth_token, oauth_verifier, callback);
} else {
var request_params = {
'url_callback_param' : 'chromeexoauthcallback'
}
this.getRequestToken(function(url) {
alert("Url after get request token " + url);
window.location.href = url;
alert(window.location.href);
}, request_params);
}
Here, the url in the first alert is the twitter oauth url but the second alert gives the Chrome extension Url -
chrome-extension://kiekipigbdldhggmlohbnhofnjhcbmem/chrome_ex_oauth.html
Why did the url not get assigned to window.location.href?
Any ideas on what might be happening?

The issue was not because I was using a Promise, but because when using Flux, the Action was being Dispatched before the response from the Promise was received and this was causing the app to hang somehow
signin: function(){
ChromeUtils.connecttotwitter().then(alert("Step After Then"));
AppDispatcher.dispatch({actionType:TweetSmartActions.SIGN_IN,signedInTwitterUserId: response.user_id});
},
In the above, the AppDispatcher.dispatch should be called in the function which is invoked on then.

Load Javascript into ajax loaded content

I am new to working with AJAX and have some experience with Java/Jquery. I have been looking around for an solution to my problem but i cant seem to find any.
I am trying to build a function in a webshop where the product will appear in a popup window instead of loading a new page.
I got it working by using this code:
$(".product-slot a").live('click', function() {
var myUrl = $(this).attr("href") + " #product-content";
$("#product-overlay-inner").load(myUrl, function() {
});
$("#product-overlay").fadeIn();
return false;
});
product-slot a = Link to the product in the category page.
product-content = the div i want to insert in the popup from the product page.
product-overlay-inner = The popup window.
product-overlay = The popup wrapper.
The problem that i now have is that my Javascript/Jquery isnt working in the productpopup. For example the lightbox for the product image or the button to add product to shoppingcart doesnt work. Is there anyway to make the javascript work inside the loaded content or to load javascript into the popup?
I hope you can understand what my problem is!
Thank you in advance!
EDIT: The platform im using has jquery-ui-1.7.2

I know this is an old thread but I've been working on a similar process with the same script loading problem and thought I'd share my version as another option.
I have a basic route handler for when a user clicks an anchor/button etc that I use to swap out the main content area of the site, in this example it's the ".page" class.
I then use a function to make an ajax call to get the html content as a partial, at the moment they are php files and they do some preliminary rendering server side to build the html but this isn't necessary.
The callback handles placing the new html and as I know what script I need I just append it to the bottom in a script tag created on the fly. If I have an error at the server I pass this back as content which may be just a key word that I can use to trigger a custom js method to print something more meaningful to the page.
here's a basic implementation based on the register route handler:
var register = function(){
$(".page").html("");
// use the getText ajax function to get the page content:
getText('partials/register.php', function(content) {
$(".page").html(content);
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = "js/register.js";
$(".page").append(script);
});
};
/******************************************
* Ajax helpers
******************************************/
// Issue a Http GET request for the contents of the specified Url.
// when the response arrives successfully, verify it's plain text
// and if so, pass it to the specified callback function
function getText(url, callback) {
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open("GET", url);
request.onreadystatechange = function() {
// if the request is complete and was successful -
if (request.readyState === 4 && request.status === 200) {
// check the content type:
var type = request.getResponseHeader("Content-Type");
if (type.match(/^text/)) {
callback(request.responseText);
}
}
};
// send it:
request.send(null); // nothing to send on GET requests.
}
I find this a good way to 'module-ize' my code into partial views and separated JavaScript files that can be swapped in/out of the page easily.
I will be working on a way to make this more dynamic and even cache these 'modules' for repeated use in an SPA scenario.
I'm relatively new to web dev so if you can see any problems with this or a safer/better way to do it I'm all ears :)

Yes you can load Javascript from a dynamic page, but not with load() as load strips any Javascript and inserts the raw HTML.
Solution: pull down raw page with a get and reattach any Javascript blocks.
Apologies that this is in Typescript, but you should get the idea (if anything, strongly-typed TypeScript is easier to read than plain Javascript):
_loadIntoPanel(panel: JQuery, url: string, callback?: { (): void; })
{
// Regular expression to match <script>...</script> block
var re = /<script\b[^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/script>/gm;
var scripts: string = "";
var match;
// Do an async AJAX get
$.ajax({
url: url,
type: "get",
success: function (data: string, status: string, xhr)
{
while (match = re.exec(data))
{
if (match[1] != "")
{
// TODO: Any extra work here to eliminate existing scripts from being inserted
scripts += match[0];
}
}
// Replace the contents of the panel
//panel.html(data);
// If you only want part of the loaded view (assuming it is not a partial view)
// using something like
panel.html($(data).find('#product-content'));
// Add the scripts - will evaluate immediately - beware of any onload code
panel.append(scripts);
if (callback) { callback(); }
},
error: function (xhr, status, error)
{
alert(error);
}
});
}
Plain JQuery/Javascript version with hooks:
It will go something like:
var _loadFormIntoPanel = function (panel, url, callback) {
var that = this;
var re = /<script\b[^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/script>/gm;
var scripts = "";
var match;
$.ajax({
url: url,
type: "get",
success: function (data, status, xhr) {
while(match = re.exec(data)) {
if(match[1] != "") {
// TODO: Any extra work here to eliminate existing scripts from being inserted
scripts += match[0];
}
}
panel.html(data);
panel.append(scripts);
if(callback) {
callback();
}
},
error: function (xhr, status, error) {
alert(error);
}
});
};
$(".product-slot a").live('click', function() {
var myUrl = $(this).attr("href") + " #product-content";
_loadFormIntoPanel($("#product-overlay-inner"), myUrl, function() {
// Now do extra stuff to loaded panel here
});
$("#product-overlay").fadeIn();
return false;
});

Ajax, call multiple PHP function from a single js

i have a trouble with my project.
In my site i have a page html with a single button and at onclick() eventa js function call intro.js, trough a XmlHttpRequestObject have to do many calls at many php function, in detail:
in js i call scan() function
function scan() {
if (xmlHttp)
{
// try to connect to the server
try
{
// initiate reading the async.txt file from the server
xmlHttp.open("GET", "php/intro.php?P1=http://"+oStxt.value, true);
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = handleRequestStateChange;
xmlHttp.send(null);
// change cursor to "busy" hourglass icon
document.body.style.cursor = "wait";
}
// display the error in case of failure
catch (e)
{
alert("Can't connect to server:\n" + e.toString());
// revert "busy" hourglass icon to normal cursor
document.body.style.cursor = "default";
}
}
}
And in handleRequestStatuschange i have:
function handleRequestStateChange()
{
// obtain a reference to the <div> element on the page
// display the status of the request
if (xmlHttp.readyState == 0 || xmlHttp.readyState == 4)
{
// revert "busy" hourglass icon to normal cursor
document.body.style.cursor = "default";
// read response only if HTTP status is "OK"
if (xmlHttp.status == 200)
{
try
{
// read the message from the server
response = xmlHttp.responseText;
// display the message
document.body.appendChild(oRtag);
oPch = document.getElementById("divRtag");
oOch = document.createTextNode(response);
oPch.appendChild(oOch);
}
catch(e)
{
// display error message
alert("Error reading the response: " + e.toString());
}
}
else
{
// display status message
alert("There was a problem retrieving the data:\n" +
xmlHttp.statusText);
// revert "busy" hourglass icon to normal cursor
document.body.style.cursor = "default";
}
}
}
It works for just one php call, but i need to call different php page in scan function after intro.php (scan2.php, scan3.php, ecc ecc) and with json_decode write single data of the array that return in div tags on my html page.
Which is the best way to call different php pages and manage the results with a single js function in ajax?
Thanks in advance
Alessandro

Not sure how you built your php-functions. Cant you create a function, that calls other functions (scans)?
function doScan(){
$data = array();
//like this, or with a loop
$data['scan1'] = scan1();
....
$data['scanN'] = scanN();
echo json_encode($data);
}

Really, the simplest method that comes to mind is just to parameterise this function. This is as simple as
function doScan(url) { // Code here }
Then simply make the exact same ajax request with the url variable.
xmlHttp.open("GET", "php/" + url + "?P1=http://"+oStxt.value, true);
Next, simply call the doScan function with various parameters.
doScan("index.php");
doScan("otherPage.php");
doScan("somethingElse.php");
This will make ajax requests on the PHP file that you specify.