I've heard that you can have external html documents for webpages (like css stylesheets). Is this true? If so how do you go about making one, and then calling it up within a page.
Kyle
Dijkgraaf
11:52 pm on Feb 6, 2006 (gmt 0)
Yes Either via Server Side Includes (SSI for short), or having dynamically generated pages that include other files when generating the page.
JMScomp
4:47 pm on Feb 7, 2006 (gmt 0)
Can you use one to have an external html menu that can be called up on all pages?
Kyle
ErolinDesigns
4:52 pm on Feb 7, 2006 (gmt 0)
Yes. Create a menu.html file and create your menu. Then wherever you want to include it, add the following code:
<!--#include virtual="/menu.html" -->
JMScomp
4:59 pm on Feb 7, 2006 (gmt 0)
Do you have to have the standard tags <html>, <head> and <body> in the external file, or do you just copy and paste the code snippet?
Kyle
encyclo
8:11 pm on Feb 7, 2006 (gmt 0)
If you are using SSI, then you just use the snippet of markup you want to include without anything else. Bear in mind that some servers require an .shtml extension for SSI to function, unless you specify that .htm or .html files are parsed for includes in a .htaccess file.
JMScomp
9:06 pm on Feb 7, 2006 (gmt 0)
The Server doesn't support SSI, but what about the dynamically generated page. Is that Java or what?
Kyle P.S. Sorry, I've never had this sort of issue before.
Dijkgraaf
9:23 pm on Feb 7, 2006 (gmt 0)
Java, PHP, ASP or whatever you have available.
JMScomp
9:29 pm on Feb 7, 2006 (gmt 0)
Ok, thanks for the info.
Kyle
mehh
4:52 pm on Feb 12, 2006 (gmt 0)
you could always use the <frame> and <frameset> tags
