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Asked: 2026-06-06T00:14:30+00:00

How would I go about creating a menu (complex, simple, etc – doesn’t matter

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How would I go about creating a menu (complex, simple, etc – doesn’t matter in this example) and then linking to each in each page of my site?

I wish to create menu and then have index.htm, page2.htm, page3.htm, .. pageN.htm refer to it and load it as if it exists on each page individually.

Basically, I wish to write it once, and use it everywhere.

For example:

Menu:

Home | Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page N

And then:

Page1.htm

Home | Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page N

Content
More Content
Even More Content

…and…

Page2.htm

Home | Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page N

Content
More Content
Even More Content

…and so forth so that when I change the content of the menu, it will reflect automatically across each page that references it, much the same was that CSS works.

Many thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Copy/Paste. 🙂

    Seriously, I did HTML/CSS only dev for a year or two and the only reliable way I found was copy/paste the menu. Now, if you go into PHP at all, heck even one line of PHP you can include an HTML file (here, your menu) which is saved in a separate menu.html file.

    It’s a lot of work to keep the menus up to date, especially if you have a lot of pages – that’s why so many people switched to a Content Management System (CMS) like Joomla/Wordpress/Drupal, or added PHP, or even Dreamweaver does it (library items).

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