Is there something like but for text, not using ajax (and avoid iframes)?

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Essentially I have lots of small urls with parameters. a requirement is for users to be able to generate reports by coding their own html page with their own layout. The reports won't be dynamic so I don't want to use Ajax. Are iframes the only way?

Can you use something on server side (PHP / ASP / Server side includes)? — Pekka, Oct 18 '10 at 19:13
possible duplicate of [Equivalent of include() in HTML](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3928331/equivalent-of-include-in-html) — Pekka, Oct 18 '10 at 19:15
Here's another with what looks like better answers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2336569/include-one-html-file-in-another-html-file — Pekka, Oct 18 '10 at 19:16
And here's one with a PHP answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1616834/including-dynamic-html-with-php — Pekka, Oct 18 '10 at 19:16

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 18 '10 at 19:22

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AJAX doesn't require that the report be dynamic. You can go get the HTML and then set the innerHTML of a tag with the result. If there were a hypothetical tag like

 <remotediv src="..."></remotediv>

It would pretty much do the same thing as this.

I believe that javascript in the HTML set to innerHTML won't run -- which might be the desired effect.

answered Oct 18 '10 at 19:22

Lou Franco

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Plain Ajax can't do cross-domain requests which is a notable downside to this – Pekka Oct 18 '10 at 20:43

Is there something like but for text, not using ajax (and avoid iframes)?

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