Using Ajax to pull an html file in to a jQuery code

Using Ajax to pull an html file in to a jQuery code

Hi there im trying to use the jQuery news ticker (Found here: http://www.jquerynewsticker.com/ ) 
to load data from a feed html file using the following code:

<ul id="js-news" class="js-hidden">
    <div id="news-item"></div>
  
</ul>
<script>
    $("#news-item").load("latest-news2html.html";
});
</script>

The reason im doing this is that im working on a website for a friend who needs to be able to edit the ticker content, but the CMS her site is on doesnt recognise the ticker or allow you to make the ticker text editable, unless it is in an external html file.

The ticker works if I manualy paste the content of the html file in in place. However the above code doesnt load anything in to the website at all. If you check the source code after loading the page, it simply doesnt have the html data from the feed file in there...

Im new to ajax and jQuesry so im probably doing something obviously wrong. Please could you point out what it is?

Thank you for reading this, and thank you in advance to those who try to help.