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I have two HTML files that are generated from a particular application; one is a navigation "header" file and the other is a "content" file that the navigation file points to.

I have access to these files but I don't have control over how they're generated.

The files currently fit together by a third file "index.html". The index file uses document.write() to create a frameset tag and then two frame tags, one for each HTML file noted above.

I'm writing a replacement index.html file that mimic's the frameset with section tags and then adds in some features that allows the user to perform processes on the "content" html file.

So far I'm able to accomplish this by using the jquery load() method to grab the navigation and content files, but when I take the files offline (these files are meant to be consumable directly from the desktop) it does not work. I read into the jquery documentation for load() and see that it needs to be run from a server.

My questions is: is there any way to load the content from one html file into another html file without being in a hosted environment? I've seen it work in other solutions like the bwip-js and it looks like it's just using the jquery load(), but there must be something I'm missing.

Any suggestions?

Chris Schmitz
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  • is there a specific reason why you are using frameset as opposed to divs? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4263509/why-are-frames-deprecated-in-html – Phlume Jan 27 '14 at 16:52
  • It's the way the application that generates the files structures them. In my solution I'm replacing the index.html file that is generated (that uses the frameset) with `
    ` tags and trying to populate those tags with the contents of the two html files to get around using the frameset.
     – Chris Schmitz Jan 27 '14 at 16:54
  • Can you post your code? – Phlume Mar 05 '14 at 20:57

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