{"id":351143,"date":"2021-09-01T17:29:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?p=351143"},"modified":"2021-09-08T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:52:50","slug":"__trashed-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/__trashed-7\/","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t need external assets in an HTML file"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shkspr.mobi\/blog\/2021\/08\/you-dont-need-external-assets-in-an-html-file\/\" rel=\"noopener\">A fun exercise<\/a> from Terence Eden. You can send an HTML file over the wire including anything a website might need without requesting any other files. CSS and JavaScript are easy, because there are <code>&lt;script><\/code> and <code>&lt;style><\/code> tags. Images and fonts (and pretty much whatever other kind of asset) aren&#8217;t too hard because <a href=\"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/data-uris\/\">Data URLs exist<\/a>. See Terence&#8217;s post for an extra-tricky final version including <code>.zip<\/code> files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Reminds me of a couple of other tricks&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>You don&#8217;t have to include CSS in your HTML, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/adding-css-to-a-page-via-http-headers\/\">force an HTML file to load the styles via header.<\/a><\/li><li>You can use that trick above, literally send <em>zero HTML<\/em>, and still make a thing that looks like a website because of how the browser implies certain HTML, which you can then append content via CSS <a href=\"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/almanac\/selectors\/a\/after-and-before\/\">pseudo elements<\/a>. Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/using-css-without-html\/\">&#8220;Using CSS without HTML&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fun exercise from Terence Eden. You can send an HTML file over the wire including anything a website might need without requesting any other files. CSS and JavaScript are easy, because there are &lt;script> and &lt;style> tags. Images and fonts (and pretty much whatever other kind of asset) aren&#8217;t too hard because Data URLs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":295503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"You can send an HTML file over the wire including anything a website might need without requesting any other files.","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/css-tricks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/broken-html.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351608,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351143\/revisions\/351608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}