alt Hacker NewsW3C: Why can't we just have <includes src="./header.html"> and be done with it?
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pwdisswordfishq • today at 7:46 AM
pautasso • today at 6:42 AM
Nice idea!
https://web.dev/articles/imports
Been there, tried that.
Introduced in 2014 (Chrome 36) Deprecated 2018 (Chrome 70) Retired 2019 (Chrome 73)
cton • today at 6:24 AM
You might be interested in https://github.com/WICG/declarative-partial-updates
icedchai • today at 3:55 PM
In the old days, we used to emulate this with a <script> tag that did a document.write ... yes, very hacky.
geoffmunn • today at 7:16 AM
Can I introduce you to iframes? Clunky but they do exactly what you are asking for.
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SGML (ISO 8879), the markup meta-language on which HTML is based, has that, as well as many other things, such as type-checked templating.
Hence HTML as a mere vocabulary making use of SGML's facilities didn't need to define its own ad-hoc mechanism.
Btw the <?php ...> construct is also derived from SGML. In SGML terms it's a "processing instruction" rather than an "entity reference", the latter being the basic means for content inclusion.