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Asked: 2026-06-02T08:14:39+00:00

My question regards the use of jQuery’s .load() method. The code below loads some

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My question regards the use of jQuery’s .load() method. The code below loads some content from a page on my site, into the current one. 

$('a').click(function(event){
    $('#result').load("mywebpage.html #report");
    event.preventDefault();
  });

This works well, but as I understand it, the .load() method as used above, actually returns mywebpage.html in it’s entirety, just to get the contents of div named #report.

If mywebpage.html was an especially large file, and I had a busy site, then I’d want to optimise this call, so that it just returned the contents of the #report div.

Is jQuery capable of doing this on a static html-only website?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Is jQuery capable of doing this on a static html-only website?

    NO

    jQuery is, after all, javascript. The .load() method will be AJAX-based. And AJAX can only fetch full files. Even if it could fetch partial files, it would still need to fetch the full file to _find out where the div is in the first place.

    If you had access to the server, you could make a PHP page using an XML parser that does this. If you only ever want to load that element, keep it in a separate html file. Otherwise, nope.

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