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I'm not far enough along to know how to answer this. I was under the possibly mistake impression that I could create a standalone html file with reusable components, tag them by id, get those elements by id in Javascript, store them as a variable and instance those component into another html document with an ordinary javascript file by getting a place holder div id in the main html file and adding the content using the innerHTML property.
Is that not the case?
If I understand you right, the closest thing to this natively is probably web components. They have really good support across browsers now, and they would accomplish what you want without adding extra javascript to weigh your site down.
You could also learn and use a javascript framework like Astro, Svelte, Vue, React, etc. which are all industry-standard frameworks built to break your website down into a ton of reusable components and keep things organized. I like Svelte or Astro because they feel closer to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS to me. Here's the official interactive tutorial for Svelte if you want to mess around with it: learn.svelte.dev
PHP does have "includes" too if you want to go that route
I was looking into Astro and Svelte and those definitely seem interesting. I've saved links so I can get into them more in a few weeks when I'm a bit further along with the fundamentals. Thanks!
Also just throwing this out there: I run a Discord called The Spicy Web that really is about learning and building stuff with the fundamentals, even for old-timers like myself (but all the more for newbies! So much advice out there is about pulling in tons of opinionated tools and dependencies, even when you don't need them…). At any point if you want to bounce ideas or questions off folks in real-time, check it out!
Much appreciated, thanks! I'll save a link to this and have a look! I am definitely a fan of using simple tools, so that definitely appeals to me.
Thanks, I'll take a look at this too!