HTML code to display text from outside URL

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[yashom]

I am a newbie to html.

work of: <img>url</img>
1.go to url
2.get the image
3.wrap it inside our page

now if I want to do the same thing with text i.e.
I want to:
1.go to a url
2.get text from there
3.show that text in my page

help appreciated.

[piatkow]

You should not hotlink content on somebody elses server without permission as they are paying for the bandwidth that you are using. You could also end up in court over copyright issues.

If you have permission to use the content then the provider will tell you how they are serving it. There are several different ways in which they might do that and its down to them to tell you which.

[yashom]

:O
I can display an img from some other webpage into mine easily.

Similarly if images are allowed to be taken from other pages so easily...why not text?

answer if u can. dont talk about copyright issues.

[tedster]

Ah, but the same legal issues exist with hotlinking to other's images too. That's called "hotlinking" and a Site Search [webmasterworld.com] here will turn up thousands of discussions on the topic.