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On a similar note, does anyone know if it's possible without JavaScript for a link or form or something similar to be submitted without the whole page refreshing and still being able to update some text?

For example, the upvote, favorite, and reply actions on hacker news website. They all require a whole page refresh. Is it possible to achieve it without page refresh and without JavaScript?

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If you do not wish to use any javascript, you can use iframes and the "target" attribute on links and forms:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#...

However the user experience is pretty rough, which is why people typically don't use this feature.

If you want a minimal amount of javascript to achieve this, we (the htmx folks) also have fixi:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/fixi

Finally, we are working on introducing general transclusion into the HTML spec itself with the triptych project:

https://github.com/alexpetros/triptych

however that is a ways off (if ever)

Have you tried HTMX?

HTMX requires incorporating script which goes against my question.

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