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Web Design: How To Insert HTML (like A Header/footer) Into A File?

 

#1 Report Post 14 Aug 2009 1:18:37 AM
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Web Design: How to insert HTML (like a header/footer) into a file?

I'm trying to design a website that has similar (the same) header/footer for each file...

How can I simply "include" it without typing it in manually?

I can't use ASP/PHP/etc... Can I "preprocess" it locally (running windows XP) and then upload the files?

How? (free resources/programs appreciated)
Hello! Wow, thanks for the great answers so far. I do appreciate it, but after doing some more googling, I finally came upon HTP
http://htp.sourceforge.net/
It lets you run it on your computer to create the >static< .html files to upload... unfortunately I don't have access to SSI.

I think that's what I want, and if anyone wants to agree with me then I'll pick yours as the best answer probably.
Well ok, the reason why I don't think I can use SSI/ASP/PHP/etc. is because I haven't found webspace to upload my website to yet.

I'm working on my site on my harddrive locally and planning to upload it eventually.

If I plan to use ASP/PHP whatever... I don't know how I can test it locally, because my computer isn't a server.

So I guess a related question might be how would I test it? (Is there an easy to install free server software or something)
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#2 Report Post 14 Aug 2009 2:26:14 AM
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Re: Web Design: How to insert HTML (like a header/footer) into a file?

I know you said you can't use a scripting language like PHP but that would be the preferred method. It would be incredibly simple to do with PHP. And the advantage would be that if you wanted to change all of the headers/footers at once you could just change one .inc (include) file.

HTML is a static language. It doesn't have a server-side component. As far as I know, you must use a dynamic scripting language to accomplish this. The only thing you can do is to specify the format of the header and footer (not the actual content) with CSS.
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#3 Report Post 14 Aug 2009 2:40:21 AM
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Re: Web Design: How to insert HTML (like a header/footer) into a file?

I'm curios to know why you can't use PHP or MYsql.

Anyway... You could create a template page the way you like..you heaader and footer there. Then just simply add the content you want for each new page and save it with a different name.

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#4 Report Post 14 Aug 2009 3:50:41 AM
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Re: Web Design: How to insert HTML (like a header/footer) into a file?

If your webhost allows SSI (Server Side Includes), you can create a file with the text, photo, html, etc. that you want to have on each page. Upload that page to the same directory that your root home page is in. Then, in each file, you can put an SSI 'Include' command to pull it in. Here's a website with a tutorial on SSI Include
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#5 Report Post 14 Aug 2009 3:52:45 AM
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Re: Web Design: How to insert HTML (like a header/footer) into a file?

I agree with justwondering that SSI (Server Side Includes) is the best way to do what you're asking, at least on an Apache server. If it's a Windows server, you would have to use ASP. But you say you cannot use either ASP or SSI.

It is possible to use client-side logic, such as JavaScript. This wouldn't be as clean as server-side logic, because it will not work for everyone: some (perhaps 10-20%) of your visitors will have scripting disabled. Many people do use JavaScript for site navigation, and sometimes for common headers and footers. If for some reason you were sure that all, or nearly all, of your site's visitors would be sure to have scripting turned on, then this might be the way to go.
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