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Asked: 2026-05-21T21:48:43+00:00

I think this is a very simple question, but I can’t seem to get

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I think this is a very simple question, but I can’t seem to get it to work. I need to use JavaScript (specifically jQuery, apparently) to grab some content from a page, and pull it into another page. I’ve researched this quite a bit, but can’t seem to get even a very simple example to work.

Here is the page I’m trying to get content from:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is the test html page.</p>
</body>
</html>

Here is the page I’m trying to use to pull the content:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>PullData</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js">
</head>
<body>

<ol id="result"></ol>

<script type="text/javascript">
$('#result').load('test.html');
</script>

</body>
</html>

When I open the page it doesn’t seem to do anything. I’m basically trying to follow the examples from jquery.com: http://api.jquery.com/load/

Both html pages are in the same folder somewhere on my C drive.

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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  1. Editorial Team

    What browser are you using?

    Because of same-origin policy, some browsers won’t permit AJAX requests to file:/// URLs, even if the original file was loaded that way. I know this is true of Chrome, but haven’t tested others.

    What does your .load() error handler say? Oh…

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