Even on a static website there is always content that changes regularly and can be loaded from a database or a web service, for example. OpenEndpoints is perfect for converting external content into HTML, which can be seamlessly integrated into your own website.
HTML Sniplets
Build an . Do not use the download-filename attribute in this case.
The generated HTML is inserted directly into the <div>. Therefore, the HTML (generated with XSLT) should not contain a <head> or <body> tag, but actually only the content that is to be inserted!
Java Script can be used to load the html returned from the endpoint into a <div>.
In this example the script was taken from .
<html>
<head>
...
<script>
function includeHTML() {
var z, i, elmnt, file, xhttp;
/* Loop through a collection of all HTML elements: */
z = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
for (i = 0; i < z.length; i++) {
elmnt = z[i];
/*search for elements with a certain atrribute:*/
file = elmnt.getAttribute("w3-include-html");
if (file) {
/* Make an HTTP request using the attribute value as the file name: */
xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (this.readyState == 4) {
if (this.status == 200) {
elmnt.innerHTML = this.responseText;
}
if (this.status == 404) {
elmnt.innerHTML = "Page not found.";
}
/* Remove the attribute, and call this function once more: */
elmnt.removeAttribute("w3-include-html");
includeHTML();
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", file, true);
xhttp.send();
/* Exit the function: */
return;
}
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
...
<div w3-include-html="[path-to-your-endpoint]"></div>
...
<script>
includeHTML();
</script>
</body>
</html>