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I’ve researched this a fair bit, but the advice is a bit confusing since it either seems out of date or possibly not the most secure way of handling things.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?
On it’s face, this is a very odd request. I feel like, in trying to simplify the question, you’ve left out a lot of pertinent details.
My suspicion is that you have a specific problem you’re trying to solve, and, due to lack of experience with web development, you’ve settled on this solution of using JS to copy an html snippet from one document to another, when a proper solution to the actual problem is probably nothing like that. Without knowing what the original problem is and what environment the code would be running in, I’m afraid it’s going to be nearly impossible to offer any suggestions.