"put a blob of HTML somewhere on the screen, optionally replacing a given DOM node" was achievable in the jQuery era. I definitely did it in a hand-rolled PHP a

"put a blob of HTML somewhere on the screen, optionally replacing a given DOM node" was achievable in the jQuery era. I definitely did it in a hand-rolled PHP app where links worked as links unless you had JS, then they'd replace the #main div with the main content of that link, and I still have all my hair. A library that does it using magic attrs is an emergent pattern that took some time to break out since SPAs have sort of eaten the world of late. Also in that era: adding onclick to elements that semantically should never have onclick and won't have correct focus behavior and won't show up in the screen reader rotor and, and, and. And now HTMX has "When a user clicks on this div" in its docs. Some things are best left in the past. That really bums me the fuck out.