Question

Hey all, looking to see if theres a way to easily include external html file inside the body to repeat on every page, for instance: a navigator or something.

Basically if i have to add a menu item or something, i have to go and paste all the code into each page. Or even a way to section parts off in Dreamweaver to update based on a file or something would work i suppose

Ive done it before through JavaScript with document.writes and stuff, but it was very annoying, and probably a terrible way to go about doing so.

thanks for your help!

Answer 1

You have a couple of options:

• Most html editors have the concept of templates, where you have a fixed
  page with navigation and footer
  areas, and you specify the content
  for each page. THe tool will keep the
  rest in sync. Look for something
  like this.
• IFrame: Don’t do that
• Javascript, like you already talked about.
• Lightweight server side code, like php

I wrote up a post on doing something like that in php