Question

I need to be able to update a date on a site via a txt file (or xml or whatever is easiest).
This is what the html looks like right now, and I need the line “THIS SHOULD BE DYNAMIC” to be loaded from an external file which I easily can update.

<div class="container">
    <div>
        <h1>LOREM IPSUM:<br />
          THIS SHOULD BE DYNAMIC
          <div class="separator"></div>
          LOREM IPSUM<br />
          LOREM IPSUM<br />
          LOREM IPSUM</h1>
    </div>
</div>

Answer 1

If you wrap the text:

<span id="dynamicdate">THIS SHOULD BE DYNAMIC</span>

Then you can use .get():

$(function(){
   $.get("your-url-to-file.txt", function(data) {
      $("#dynamicdate").html(data);
   });
});