Here is a link to a working example I am using.

http://www.medequipserv.com/needSomeHelp.htm

I need to load the part at the bottom of the page that looks like this:

<div id="excel">
Item,Price
LHA103GP,$999.99
AAM102,$999.99
AAM103,$999.99
</div>

I would like to load this part of the code from an external file instead of manually putting it in the page. This example is small, the actual model will have about 30,000 lines of items and prices. The prices will fluctuate, so if I have one external file that contains ALL the items and prices. I can easilly update the prices when they change, if I keep the DIV excel in the file, I would have to manually change it each time price changes, also it would take a ton of processing to put a div tag with 30,000 lines on every page that looks like this.

My first thought is NO. the only way you can do this is is you have server side includes such as asp, php etc

Im wandering though if you could put code in a text file and change to

document.write("<<div id="excel">
Item,Price
LHA103GP,$999.99
AAM102,$999.99
AAM103,$999.99
</div>")

name it ??.js


and then usine the <javascript src=

Im just learning this but it might work. Would be intersested to know if does. I have a similar problem my self at the moment.

There is a way to do this... in Javascript.
You need to use the .innerHtml attribute of the DIV to manipulate it. You can get the contents of the file using the MSXMLHTTP object.
Can't give you the exact code cos I don't have it any more, sure there's examples around though...

Thanks for the replys! I also thought about document.write to insert the data. The problem with this is the overhead processing. The example I showed had a few values, the actual working model has roughly 30,000 variable and values. Doing a doc.write is a good idea, but would require so much overhead it wouldn't be worth loading the page.



I think I maybe able to do this with javascript. I am thinking that I could use an external javascript (.js) which would contain:

var 12345 = "$10"
var 12346 = "$11"
and so on...

then in my html page have each link display its variable value. This way there would be a central item / pricing document.

Let me know if anyone has any other ideas. Also, I am very interested in this .innerHTML attrib for DIV. I will put in some hours tring to figure it out. Thanks guys, your advice is an invaluable resource!