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Asked: 2026-06-06T12:47:52+00:00

Lets say i have an external html page and I want to append text

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Lets say i have an external html page and I want to append text inside of a specific tag from my php admin page such as putting miscellaneous text inside of this span tag.

For example:

<html>
<body>
<span class="text"></span>
</body>
</html>

How would I do that with PHP? I’m trying to make an admin page for this website, and I need to append text inside of certain tags. I don’t even know where to start with this, please point me in the right direction.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can do this using PHP’s DOMDocument, like so:

    // Load the HTML document
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->loadHtmlFile( 'htmlpage.html');

// Get the parent node where you want the insertion to occur
$parent = $doc->getElementsByTagName('body')->item( 0);

// Create the child element 
$child = $doc->createElement( 'span');
$child->setAttribute( 'class', 'text');

// Append (insert) the child to the parent node
$parent->appendChild( $child);

// Save the resulting HTML
echo $doc->saveHTML();

    So, given this HTML:

    <html>
<body>
</body>
</html>

    The resulting HTML would be:

    <html>
<body>
<span class="text"></span>
</body>
</html>

    (Neglecting the DOCTYPE declaration that DOMDocument adds if it is not present)

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