Assign output of EJS include tag to a JavaScript variable

Question

My footer HTML is in the file footer.ejs. On another page, I want to append this HTML dynamically with JavaScript.

The code below doesn't work. Is there a way to assign a template output to a JavaScript variable?

var footer = <%= include footer %>;
$('.test').after(footer);

The templates are rendered on the back-end (Node) and sent to front-end.

Answer 1

You probably need to enclose the tag in ':

var footer = '<%= include footer %>';