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A Whole Website in a Single HTML File

I can’t stop thinking about this site. It looks like a pretty standard fare; a website with links to different pages. Nothing to write home about except that… the whole website is contained within a single HTML file.

What about clicking the navigation links, you ask? Each link merely shows and hides certain parts of the HTML.

<section id="home">
  <!-- home content goes here -->
</section>
<section id="about">
  <!-- about page goes here -->
</section>

Each <section> is hidden with CSS:

section { display: none; }

Each link in the main navigation points to an anchor on the page:

<a href="#home">Home</a>
<a href="#about">About</a>

And once you click a link, the <section> for that particular link is displayed via:

section:target { display: block; }

See that :target pseudo selector? That’s the magic! Sure, it’s been around for years, but this is a clever way to use it for sure. Most times, it’s used to highlight the anchor on the page once an anchor link to it has been clicked. That’s a handy way to help the user know where they’ve just jumped to.

Anyway, using :target like this is super smart stuff! It ends up looking like just a regular website when you click around:

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Enterprise Integration Patterns With MuleSoft: Message Enricher

Introduction

Message or Content Enricher is an enterprise integration pattern that receives an incoming message that doesn't have all the required information, then retrieves that required information from another target system appends it to the data to the message, or forms a new message with everything we need. The image below demonstrates the basic flow.

MuleSoft 3 provides the Message Enricher component. Generally, we wrap the message processor with the Message Enricher component to enrich the data.