Equivalent to $.load without jQuery

Question

I want to load some Jade content into a certain div on button click. I have found how to do this with jquery, there are several posts on it, and essentially what I want to do is

$('#div').load('/somePage');

However, I am unable to use jQuery in my project. Is there an equivalent function in vanilla javascript?

Answer 1

I think you can do this with the following;

var request = new XMLHttpRequest();

request.open('GET', '/somepage', true);

request.onload = function() {
  if (request.status >= 200 && request.status < 400) {
    var resp = request.responseText;

    document.querySelector('#div').innerHTML = resp;
  }
};

request.send();

By the way, you can do this with fetch API too.

fetch('/somepage')
  .then(function(response) {
    return response.text();
  })
  .then(function(body) {
    document.querySelector('#div').innerHTML = body;
  });

By the way, you can read this blog post for learning something about fetch API.

Answer 2

While I was trying to solve the same problem, I made this which is based on Ali BARIN's answer, and seems to work great but is a bit more explicit version, adding init information, and has some logic to use document.getElementById instead of querySelector.

/*
 * Replicates the functionality of jQuery's `load` function, 
 * used to load some HTML from another file into the current one.
 * 
 * Based on this Stack Overflow answer:
 * https://stackoverflow.com/a/38132775/3626537
 * And `fetch` documentation:
 * https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope/fetch
 * 
 * @param {string} parentElementId - The ID of the DOM element to load into
 * @param {string} htmlFilePath - The path of the HTML file to load
 */
const loadHtml = function(parentElementId, filePath) {
    const init = {
        method : "GET",
        headers : { "Content-Type" : "text/html" },
        mode : "cors",
        cache : "default"
    };
    const req = new Request(filePath, init);
    fetch(req)
        .then(function(response) {
            return response.text();
        })
        .then(function(body) {
            // Replace `#` char in case the function gets called `querySelector` or jQuery style
            if (parentElementId.startsWith("#")) {
                parentElementId.replace("#", "");
            }
            document.getElementById(parentElementId).innerHTML = body;

        });
};