Paths with Javascript not working

Question

Before closing the body tag of my first.php page, I want to load pop.html by javascript. Both are sitting on the root folder of my public_html directory.

By using this code:

<script type="text/javascript">
$( "#modal-layer" ).load( "pop.html" );
</script>

It works when I access first.php directly:

http://www.example.com/first.php

But since I'm using a pretty URL for this page, such as:

http://www.example.com/pretty/first/

pop.html won't load because of the path.

How can I load it? the weird thing is that I even tried an absolute path:

<script type="text/javascript">
$( "#modal-layer" ).load( "http://www.example.com/pop.html" );
</script>

But even this didn't work.

Note that I need a universal solution rather than a path form that will go up only one level, as some of my pages have pretty urls that go deeper than one level.

is the pretty url (http://www.example.com/pretty/first/) on the same domain as the original (http://www.example.com/first.php) url? — Billy Moon
– Billy Moon, Commented Feb 23, 2016 at 23:56
@BillyMoon You are right, actually problem was with a path inside pop.html. Though since I saw [this thread ](stackoverflow.com/questions/2188218/…) I thought maybe my problem was related to that case. — rockyraw
– rockyraw, Commented Feb 24, 2016 at 0:02

Matti Virkkunen · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-23 23:57:00Z

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Best solution is probably an absolute path with no scheme or domain part:

<script type="text/javascript">
$( "#modal-layer" ).load( "/pop.html" );
</script>

answered Feb 23, 2016 at 23:57

Matti Virkkunen

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rockyraw Over a year ago

Thanks, my problem was actually somewhere else but this is indeed what I should use nonetheless.

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