Including one html document content in another document

[Salient]

I have three documents

header.html

footer.html

and

index.html

I'm trying to include the contents of header.htmlk in index.html, to get on top of that single change for entire site goodness

Okay I know I can do this with ColdFusion, but at this stage the beta site will be static. Is there an include method in standard html/css or do I have to bite the bullet and start the scripting early?

Cheers, thanks in advance, and stuff like that.

[felgall]

You could use Server Side Includes if that is enabled - or any server side scripting language.

[AutisticCuckoo]

Server-side includes won't work if all three files are complete HTML-documents. In that case you'll have to use frames (which have been deprecated for more than 10 years).

A better solution, of course, is to make the header and footer into include files and use server-side includes. Of course, that requires that the server supports SSI. If not, you're back to frames.

[Mokbol]

I can do this with ColdFusion, but at this stage the beta site will be static. Is there an include method in standard html/css or do I have to bite the bullet and start the scripting early?

[AutisticCuckoo]

No, there is no include method in HTML (and CSS is only for presentation).

In theory you should be able to use object elements, but that won't work very well. Another poor solution, which is also deprecated, is iframe.

You'll need to script this eventually, so I'd recommend doing that from the outset.

[Dr John]

Dreamweaver's template system allows you to create pages where editing the master template then updates all pages based on it. But then you have to upload them all, which probably isn't exactly what you'd want.

Using PHP and PHP includes will work however.

[felgall]

Using PHP and PHP includes will work however.

Since the original poster mentioned ColdFusion they are probably better off using that scripting language rather than PHP.

[Salient]

Okay thanks for the replies, time to dust off eclipse/dreamweaver and start coding. Seems slightly strange to be chucking in scripting for exactly two lines, but guess dem is the rules

Thanks for the replies.