title: Angular2: Load content of html page into a variable
body: <p>So I have an html page located in this path:</p>
  
  <p>./Help/HelpMenu/How-To-Bake-Pies.html</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to load the contents of this html page into a variable of type string like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>private _content: string = '';
  
  this.http.get("./Help/HelpMenu/How-To-Bake-Pies.html").map((html:any) =&gt; this._content = html);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After the second statement is executed the <strong>_content</strong> variable remains empty, am I missing something?</p>