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What's the best and most secure way to take a fragment of html from one document and add it to another html document with Javascript? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/webdev@programming.dev
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I'm not new to programming, but I am somewhat new to web development and I'm trying to figure out the most preferred way of taking a standalone header from one html document and adding it to other html documents without code duplication. If possible I want to do this with Javascript so I can learn with more basic tools before expanding further.

I've researched this a fair bit, but the advice is a bit confusing since it either seems out of date or possibly not the most secure way of handling things. Is there a preferred way of doing something like this?

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[–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Yeah I was planning on learning Hugo and Jekyll after I get a bit further along with HTML, CSS and Javascript. I know those would make parts of what I'm trying to do easier, but I want to try to have a deeper understanding of what can and can't or should and shouldn't be done with vanilla tools. I feel like know the why behind these things will be helpful.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Ah, I see. If you want to move around HTML using your own code, I would also think about using an XML library in your language of choice.

    Handling the HTML as a tree rather than lines of code will make the kind of operations you mention much simpler.

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