Elegant clean way to include HTML in JavaScript files?

Question

I\'m building a small app with a few modal dialog windows. The windows require a tiny bit of HTML. I\'ve hard coded the window HTML in the javascript library but am not th

Answer 1

There is 2 solutions tto your problem: - An alternative to the heredoc Syntax in javascript is to escape the newline char with \ :

var tpl = "hello\
stackoverflow\
World !";

The char is escaped so ignored, and it wont take place in the resulting string.

You can also create a plain html file with your template, and in your js script you create a hidden iframe and load the crossdomain html template. You can now access the document object of the iframe and retreive body.innerHTML. In theory! I Didn't tested this solution yet....