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I need to import HTML file of any website on the choice of user using Javascript or jQuery into another file which i can run locally.

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you can only get the html from a page on the same server as your page was loaded from. Fetching from another server is called cross site scripting or XSS in short and the browsers blocks XSS –  Rune FS May 27 at 7:40
 
What do you mean import HTML? Do you want to download the source of a random website? –  GEMI May 27 at 7:41
 
Sounds like something easily fixed by reading a manual. –  Gung Foo May 27 at 7:41
 
Here i need the HTML file of website so that i can validate. –  jerin john May 27 at 9:11
 
Best way to download a webpage's source html –  jerin john May 27 at 12:23

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You can use the jquery .load() function for that.

http://api.jquery.com/load/

Due to browser security restrictions, most "Ajax" requests are subject to the same origin policy; the request can not successfully retrieve data from a different domain, subdomain, or protocol.

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not really since you can't load the content from another server using JS –  Rune FS May 27 at 7:42
 
Thanks @RuneFS I edited my answer. –  veelen May 27 at 7:52
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The Same Origin Policy makes this tricky to accomplish, but you can do it by deploying a rewriting http proxy that will external pages appear as if they are coming from the same origin as your own page.

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About.com has a list of rewriting proxy servers.

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