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woutr_be
woutr_be

Reputation: 9722

Load pages via AJAX and execute javascript and CSS

I've been searching for a while now, but I can't figure out how to load an entire page via AJAX and still execute all javascript and css.

Mostly I just end up with the plain text without any CSS. Is there a way to do this? I tried jQuery.get, jQuery.load and jQuery.ajax, but none really work like that.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4009

Answers (5)

Arslan
Arslan

Reputation: 1

  1. Get your entire webpage as text using ajax

  2. document.open(); document.write(this.responseText); document.close();

    OR

    document.documentElement.outerHTML = this.responseText;

But you need to change the path of css and js pages in original webpage if the resulting webpage is in another directory.

Upvotes: 0

Mave751
Mave751

Reputation: 707

I suppose you are looking for something like this:

your page div --> load --> www.some-site.com

After a quik search the closest solution seems to be the one by "And": Load website into DIV

You have to run a web server and create a proxy.php page with this content:

Then your JQuery load() function should be like this:

$("#your_div_id").load("proxy.php?url=http://some-site.com");

NB. I have tested this solution and it should not load all the CSS from the target page, probably you'll have to recreate them. For example the image files stored on the remote server will not loaded, I suppose due to authentication policy.
You will be also able to view only the target page without the possibility to browse the target site.

Anyway I hope this could be a step forward to your solution.

Upvotes: 0

Winfield Trail
Winfield Trail

Reputation: 5695

If the page you load doesn't have any style data, then the external stylesheets must have relative paths that are not correct relative to the invoking document. Remember, this isn't an iFrame - you aren't framing an external document in your document, you're combining one document into another.

Another problem is that loading your complete page will also load the doctype, html, head, and body tags - which modern browsers will cope with most of the time, but the results are undefined because it's not valid HTML to jam one document into another wholesale. And this brings me to the third reason why it won't work: CSS links outside of the head section aren't valid, and the misplaced head section caused by your haphazard document-in-document collage.

What I'd do for compliance (and correct rendering) is this, which would be implemented in the Success callback:

  1. Copy all link elements to a new jQuery element.
  2. Copy the contents of all script in the head section
  3. Copy the .html() contents from the loaded document's body tag
  4. Append the link elements (copied out in step 1) to your host document's head
  5. Create a new script tag with your copied script contents and stick it in the head too
  6. Done!

Complicated? Kind of, I guess, but if you really want to load an entire page using AJAX it's your only option. It's also going to cause problems with the page's JavaScript no matter what you do, particularly code that's supposed to run during the initial load. There's nothing you can do about this. If it's a problem, you need to either rewrite the source page to be more load-friendly or you could figure out how to make an iFrame suit your needs.

It's also worth considering whether it'd work to just load your external CSS in the host document in the first place.

Upvotes: 1

Alfred
Alfred

Reputation: 21386

I have a different solution. You may try it with an iframe. Use jQuery to append an iframe script including all relevant codes into some part of your page (like some div). This may do it for you including CSS, like;

$('<iframe src="your_page.html"/>').appendTo('#your_div');

Or you may try something like;

$('<iframe src="your_page.html"/>').load(function(){
      alert('the iframe is done loading');
}).appendTo('#your_div');

Upvotes: 3

simekadam
simekadam

Reputation: 7384

I have solved similar problem as following.

  1. Download the webpage over ajax
  2. Iterate it over and find any <script> and </script> tags
  3. Get content from within these tags as text
  4. Create new <script> element and insert there the code
  5. Append the tag to your webpage

Another thing is you will need to somehow call the script.. I have done it this way:

I set standardized function names like initAddedScript callback which I am calling after appending the script to the page. Same as I have deinitScript called when I do not need the code (and its variables,..) anymore.

I must say this is awful solution, which likely means you have bad application architecture so as I have had:)

With css is it the same, but you do not need any handlers. Just append the style tag to your documents head.

Upvotes: 2

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