Is there a way to get the "string version" of a handlebars partial to include it in the innerHTML
of an HTML element?
For instance, imagine I have a ToDo list, and I want to add a task everytime I click the button "Add Task", like this:
todo_list.hbs
<div id="todo-list">
</div>
<button onclick="addTask">Add Task</button>
And that I have a handlebars partial in the file "task.hbs":
task.hbs
<h1 class="task-title">The task is: {{title}}</h1>
<button id="delete-task">Delete task</button>
<script>
const button_delete_task = document.getElementById('delete-task');
button_delete_task.addEventListener('click', deleteTask);
function deleteTask () {
// delete task code here
}
</script>
My question is: How could I create a Task partial everytime the button "Add Task" is clicked? Something like this:
<div id="todo-list">
</div>
<button onclick="addTask">Add Task</button>
<script>
function addTask() {
const todo_list = document.getElementById('todo_list');
todo_list.innerHTML += {{> Task title="A new task"}};
// More code here...
}
</script>
I have also tried enclosing the partial with backticks (`{{> Task title="A new task"}}`
), and quotes ("{{> Task title='A new task'}}"
) as well as read many posts on this subject, but all of them use handlebars.js, not express-handlebars.
I am using express.js for the backend, and therefore, express-handlebars as the view engine. In advance, thanks a lot for your help!
I managed to solve the issue!
It turns out that enclosing the partial with backticks works! The problem was that my partial had <script></script>
tags.
Imagine my task.hbs
looked like this:
<div>
<script></script>
</div>
then, the processed version of todo_list.hbs
would look like this:
<div id="todo-list">
</div>
<button onclick="addTask">Add Task</button>
<script>
function addTask() {
const todo_list = document.getElementById('todo_list');
todo_list.innerHTML += `<div>
<script></script>
</div>`;
// More code here...
}
</script>
This would be valid in a normal HTML file, but it looks like handlebars process the closing script tag that is inside the string (</script>
) as a normal tag, and with it, closes the <script>
tag of todo_list.hbs
.
The solution I found was to not use <script>
tags into my partial (not a beautiful solution, but works for me!) and instead, declare the javascript code in another file, and import it into todo_list.hbs
using <script>
tags with the src
parameter like this:
todo_list.hbs
<div id="todo-list">
</div>
<button onclick="addTask">Add Task</button>
<script>
function addTask() {
const todo_list = document.getElementById('todo_list');
todo_list.innerHTML += `{{> Task title="New task!"}}`;
// More code here...
}
</script>
<!-- JAVASCRIPT CODE REQUIRED BY TASK PARTIAL -->
<script src="/foo/bar/partials/Task.js"></script>
Where Task.js
is the file containing the javascript of the Task.hbs
partial:
Task.js
const button_delete_task = document.getElementById('delete-task');
button_delete_task.addEventListener('click', deleteTask);
function deleteTask () {
// delete task code here
}
And with this changes, Task.hbs
would look like this:
Task.hbs
<h1 class="task-title">The task is: {{title}}</h1>
<button id="delete-task">Delete task</button>