Question

Certain DIVs within a website can usually be constant…

I.E. The footer of a webpage generally doesn’t change and should be standard across all pages.

Within a websites CSS, you’ll have things like;

.FooterDIV {
     Background: #FFFFFF;
     Color: #000000;
 }

I was wondering what the best way is to specify the standard text within a DIV, is this possible in CSS alone? PHP perhaps?

After some ‘Googling’ I have found no clear answer – it’s difficult to know how to word this.

Answer 1

A simple approach is to put those “global” elements into a seperate php file each, which you include in all of your pages. For example:

footer.php

<div>Copyright 2012, Acme Corp.</div>

Then simply add the following line wherever you want the footer to appear

<?php include('footer.php'); ?>