I remember using a plugin in the past where I could use AJax to load a page and update only part of the DOM. The AJax request returns the entire HTML page, but only a small portion of it replaces part of the currently loaded DOM.
For example, SO can use this function to fetch http://stackoverflow.com and only update #content. SO would make an AJax request to fetch http://stackoverflow.com, fetch #content from the returned string, and update #content of the DOM.
Sorry if my question is confusing. How would I do this without a plugin?
The .load() function is designed to do this. Just include a selector for an element along with the URL, like so:
$('#content').load('http://stackoverflow.com #content', optionalCallbackFunction);
That will replace the content of the element with ID content on the current page, with the contents of the element with ID content on the page returned by an AJAX request to http://stackoverflow.com, then run the function called optionalCallbackFunction. Assuming, of course, that the request was successful.
Without the AJAX, you can parse a raw string like this:
var str = "<div><h1>Page Title</h1><div id='content'>This is new.</div></div>";
var text = $("#content",$(str)).html();
$('#content').html(text);
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I have a page with headers, images, etc. I'd like to replace a "page" div with another file of HTML, JavaScript, etc using Ajax and execute JavaScript on that page after it is loaded. How do I do this and also handle < , ", and other tags in the file and pass the page some parameters?
Is the other "page" content owned by you? If so, you can have javascript methods on your main "container" page, then once you fire the method to pull the contents of the new "page" div, fire the corresponding javascript method you need, since any necessary DOM elements will have been added to the page at this time.
To do it the way you mentioned, you can follow the steps seen here to use the dynamic script pattern: Executing <script> inside <div> retrieved by AJAX
Basically, you host your javascript externally, then once the page has loaded, add the "src" tag to a script element and it will execute.
As for handling special characters, you can follow steps with jQuery's ajax call to inject HTML from the other page into your current one, such as here: How to get the html of a div on another page with jQuery ajax?
$.ajax({
url:'http://www.example.com/',
type:'GET',
success: function(data){
$('#ajaxcontent').html($(data).find('body').html());
}
});
(Instead of targeting a specific div on the external page, you would target the body or parent container div)
given an html page
<html>
...
<body>
<div class="page">
some html content...
</div>
</body>
</html>
you can replace the content of the div via the jQuery function load()
$("div.page").load("an-http-resource.html");
Use an AJAX request to get the HTML file as a response.
Replace the "page" div innerHTML with the response.
If the HTML page has a bunch of headers and such and you only want a certain portion of that HTML file, you may want to use getElementById or some other method of selecting the portion of the HTML file.
The HTML entities will appear as they normally would in a browser, if that is what you mean by handling < and " and other tags.
You can send parameters by editing the endpoint:
index.html?date=today&car=yours
I'm trying to fetch an HTML document object, not the text of the page, given its URL, via Javascript. The reason I need the Document object is so I can look for a given classname and take a certain action if it exists.
If the page is in the same domain (i.e. a relative path) you could load it inside a hidden iframe, and access the document from window.frames as shown here
function saveDataToVariable(data) {
var html = data;
// do something
}
$.get('any.html', saveDataToVariable);
this will give you the complete html output of a given html page... also including the html or div tags an anything else will be included and you can parse it afterwards as you need
I am currently using Jquery's .load() function to insert a page fragment asynchronously. In the URL that I am loading the page fragment from, I also set a Javascript global variable value (in the script tag).
var loaded_variable = 'value1'
Is there a way I can use the .load() function to insert the page fragment AND retrieve the value of loaded_variable, something like the following code:
function loadProducts(url) {
$('#mainplace').load(url + ' #submain', function() {
current_variable = loaded_variable;
});
}
I am aware that script blocks are used when a selector expression is appended to the URL, so if the .load() function won't work, I'm open to other Jquery functions that can accomplish this.
Extra Info: The URL that I am loading from is written in HTML and Python (Web2py); the same Python variables are used to render the page fragment and set the loaded_variable value.
If you want to both fetch a fragment from a page and execute a script on it, you'll need a different approach. This is a bit hacky, but works.
$.ajax({url: 'fetch_page.html', dataType: 'text'}).done(function(html) {
var dom = $('<html />').prop('innerHTML', html);
$('body').append(dom.find('body p'));
$('head').append(dom.find('script'));
});
That fetches a p tag from our fetched pages and inserts it into the body of the parent page. It also executes any scripts in the fetched page.
If you're wondering about the prop('innerHTML... bit, that's because if I'd used jQuery's .html() method, it sanitises the input string and so we don't get the result we want.
My first thought was a document fragment, but you can't insert an HTML string into a doc frag - you have to append via DOM methods. Even then in this case it wouldn't really offer any saving over simply using an element to parse the dom (dom) as I have.
Bit hacky, as I say, but works.
I think I have a similar question. I have create a page that will hold a newsletter sign up. I want to load this page at the bottom of every blog post on my site. I don't want it in the footer because it is specific to my blog page and I want the ability to edit it without having to edit every blog post.
I created this page with the url /blog-newsletter-form which includes some code from an Email CRM.
I then added a div with a "blog-newsletter-form" class at the end of my blog posts and put the following in the page header to load the content from the first page section inside my blog posts.
$( document ).ready(function() {
$('.blog-newsletter-form').load("/blog-newsletter-signup #page .page-section:nth-of-type(1) .content");
});
This worked great except.. the load function is stripping the script from the newsletter page which is required for my newsletter form to work.
How do I load a page fragment but also keep the script for the newsletter. I tried using your sample code above and couldn't get it to work.
I have a URL that resides on another domain, like this:
http://ads.adserver.com/ad?site=1233&zone=45435
When you type this URL in the browser, the result is HTML like this:
<img src="htt://ads.adserver.com/i/image.gif" border="0"/><br/>Test
The above renders as an image wrapped in a link with a second link below it.
I tried to capture this URL in a script tag and append it to the DOM, but it does not render the HTML above.
var ad_script = document.createElement('script');
ad_script.type = 'text/javascript';
ad_script.src = 'http://ads.adserver.com/ad?site=1233&zone=45435';
li.appendChild(ad_script);
Are there any other ways of invoking this URL and putting the result on the page? I can't use $.getScript() since I'm not invoking this in the global context. I need this HTML to appear exactly where I want it to appear.
EDIT: The only reason I am trying this route is that the third-party does not provide a JSON-P interface.
EDIT2: Unfortunately, I am not on an application server.
EDIT3: This is for iPhone.
You are limited to how you load this due to cross-domain issues .. an easy way would be to load the image in it's own iframe
<iframe src='http://ads.adserver.com/ad?site=1233&zone=45435' height='200px' width='200px' />
You'll want to use ajax for this. The easiest way might be jQuery's .load() method.
Assuming the element you want the content to go into has an id of holder, you would do
('#holder').load('http://ads.adserver.com/ad?site=1233&zone=45435')
It will put the contents of the webpage into your selected element. http://api.jquery.com/load/
edit: Sorry, forgot cross-site ajax limitations. You could instead set up a php page like:
if(isset($_GET['url'])){
echo file_get_contents($_GET['url'])
}
and then do
('#holder').load('http://yoursite.com/yourpage.php?url=http://ads.adserver.com/ad?site=1233&zone=45435')
Take the jsonp approach. use an actual script tag and put an executing javascript function as the response that adds that html markup to the dom. It will add it to the dom of the page where the script tag resides.
There are a number of jQuery ajax calls that can accomplish this, for example:
jQuery.get('http://ads.adserver.com/ad?site=1233&zone=45435', function(data){jQuery(updateElementQuery).html(data);});
Try to use jquery method 'load'
`$('#result').load(url, function(response) {
$('#my-li').append($('#result').html());
$('#result').html(null);
});`
... where #result is some hidden div
here is the code:
<script type="text/javascript">
var ajax_data =
'<ul id="b-cmu-rgt-list-videos"><li><a href="{video.url}" '+
'title="{video.title.strip}"><img src="{video.image}" '+
'alt="{video.title.strip}" /><span>{video.title}</span></a></li></ul>';
var my_img = $(ajax_data).find('img');
</script>`
ajax_data is data from a JS template engine where I need to get some part of it. The problem is that jQuery does a GET on the
img src={video.image}: GET /test/%7Bvideo.image%7D HTTP/1.1
(on Firefox Live HTTP headers).
This GET generates a 404 from the server.
Any clues on how to solve this?
Thanks a lot :)
When you create a jquery object from html, it's immediately evaluated (because the document fragment is created), so this:
$("<img src='bob.jpg' />")
Immediately causes a fetch of the image. The way I see it you had 3 quick options (and probably others, but hard to say without more context to your question):
Replace {video.image} before creating the jQuery object.
Remove src="{video.image}", just find the <img> via the selector you already have and set the src attribute later, like this: $(ajax_data).find('img').attr('src','myImage.jpg');
Do everything you want via regex before inserting anything into the DOM.