hx-swap-oob: Updating Several Page Regions From One htmx Response
hx-swap-oob lets one htmx response update several regions of a page. Here is the syntax, a worked add-a-note example, and the silent failures to watch for.
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hx-swap-oob lets one htmx response update several regions of a page. Here is the syntax, a worked add-a-note example, and the silent failures to watch for.
htmx normally swaps one target per request. hx-swap-oob lets a single response update several page regions at once — here's how it works, with a like-button example and the failure modes to watch for.
I am designing a page that combines two supported htmx components: the Server-Sent Events extension (sse-swap) and core's hx-swap-oob attribute. The server pushes fragments over SSE, and some fragments contain both a primary element and out-of-band children meant to update other parts of the DOM by id. My understanding is that the SSE extension hands the fra