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JavaScript

Posted by Chuck Robertson
Chuck Robertson
3,408 Points

JavaScript Equivalent of PHP include

I would like to know if anyone knows the equivalent way to call on pieces of HTML code from another file like you can with PHP include:

For example: php include 'navbar.php';

I'm aware you can reference the file in the code...

<script src="js/navbar.js"></script>

But how do I write the function that gets called to include all the HTML and CSS for my navbar and then call on that from any HTML page?

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points

Hi Chuck,

You migh try looking at this link for some help with this, I migh be wrong but I don't think JS has an include of its own.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22271851/javascript-equivalent-of-phps-include

It links to something called require JS but also talks about script tags which of course link to external JS files on your server or drive, :-)