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a few different ways to skin this cat:

htmx includes headers, `HX-Request` which will be true if the request is an htmx request, and `HX-Target` that will be the id of the target element, if any, that allow you to modify your response as needed on the server side. This is very common: you have a single URL that satisfies both the htmx and non-htmx request (e.g. /search) and in the htmx case, you don't render the surrounding layout, but in the "normal" case you do.

If a server side option isn't available or is inconvenient, you can instead use the client-side attribute `hx-select` to select a bit of the HTML from the response for inclusion in the DOM.