Alright, I don't know how exactly I'm going to phrase this, so bear with me here. Is there a way to set a default HTML page? Like is there a line of code that I can use on new html files to load a local .html file for almost a template?
Use any sever-side programming language to include header and footer parts of your default webpage.
Example on PHP:
<?php
echo file_get_contents("header.html")
?>
Your page contents
<?php
echo file_get_contents("footer.html")
?>
You can set default html page in your webserver. But that's just if someone hits http://server/ with no page name it tells what page to use like http://server/index.html versus http://server/default.apx, etc. Has nothing to do with templates.
If you want to be able to include html files inside other html files, you probably need a serverside language like ASP, PHP, JSP. HTML itself doesn't have that capability, although some webservers might offer a custom tag that is translated on server-side for includes.
The default web page on a server must have the name index.html, index.htm or sometimes default.htm. It is possible to change the server to accept other file names as default files, but those are the most commonly used ones. What is the index.html page?
If you're asking how to make your web browser open a default page when you open it, this is usually called the "Home Page" and any file or page that you can visit in your browser you can assign as the home page.
If you're trying to create a template for a web page, there are many ways to do it. The PHP example listed above is one way. You can also do it with JavaScript. Write your HTML in document.write() calls inside a file named navigation.js and then place this script where you want that code displayed:
<script type="text/javascript" src="navigation.js"> </script>
However, this is not unobtrusive and could cause problems. Another way to do it is with Server Side Includes. Write a file named navigation.ssi and then add the following SSI line to your HTML where you want the included file to display:
<!--#include virtual="/ssi/navigation.ssi" -->
You can also do it with ASP and other methods. I explain in more detail in my article How Do I Include One HTML File in Another?
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I am making a local website where I have a number of pages with a lot of common code for header, navigation bar and footer.
I was wondering if there was a way I could use to store the header, footer and other such codes as independent html files, and then simply link them in the code for the new page.
You can use server-side includes for using an HTML file into another one. For that, you'll have to make a few changes in your server configuration as well. I'll show you an example of Apache.
Change configuration as mentioned in https://www.linuxtopia.org/HowToGuides/apache_ssi.html
Include the below code in your html file and replace "included.html" with your section html filename
<!--#include file="included.html" -->
Check more on : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
Every time I decide to change something in my header/navigationbar/footer/etc. I need to apply those changes to 16 other html files so my changes are consistent across my entire website.
My question is: is there a way i can make my website's template be automatically applied to every page?
An example of any page on my website and what i have in mind would look like this:
<html>
<head>injected code</head>
<body>
<header>injected code<header>
<section>NOT INJECTED CODE</section>
<footer>injected code</footer>
</body>
</html>
I know repeating code like this is bad practice, so how do i reuse (localize) code for these areas of my html since they will always be the same?
I am not really interested in content management systems.
What i do with the elements that are the same on every page, like the header, nav, footer is create those elements in a file apart and then include via php. Then if you have to change one thing in the header you only have to do it one time.
Your example will be like:
<body>
<header><?php include_once('header.html'); ?><header>
<section>NOT INJECTED CODE</section>
<footer><?php include_once('footer.html'); ?></footer>
</body>
Hope it helps.
You can use php to solve this. Name your file "index.php" (or anything else with .php as the extension)
<html>
<?php include('header.php'); ?>
<body>
<header>injected code<header>
<section>NOT INJECTED CODE</section>
<footer>injected code</footer>
</body>
<?php include('footer.php'); ?>
Then make header.php and footer.php in the same folder. These common files can then be included in all your pages.
Tip: You will need to run these on a local server. See xampp
The best way that I can think of would be to use a server side language, such as php or asp , to generate the html.
You can use <iframe> tag to include external file however I have not properly tried this and am not sure of the security or results.
You can also use javascript/jquery to write to the document, however using scripts just to write would not be best practice, a better use for client-side language would be to use ajax to load external files however some of the header may need to be defined before the ajax is complete although I haven't tested it.
In short I would recommend using a server side language probably php as it is easy to learn, free to use and you can install it on your local machine. If you already have a server running you can see what languages are already installed as most languages can include external files.
Is it possible in HTML to create a constant header? e.g. a header that you only write in one file and goes out to all the sub webpages on the website instead of having to update like 200 webpages if you want to change the header?
Not with purely html no,
However with a little php you could.
Create a Header.php and put your header code in there.
each of your .html files becomes a .php
so you can then do
<?php include('Header.php'); ?>
Now any time you change Header.php every page gets the change.
Note: If your running this locally you will need a local "server" to run php, I personally use WampServer
How can I import an HTML file within my HTML file? I will prepare header.html and footer.html files separately and every file that I want to include them I want to import them into my HTML file.,
EDIT: I see that solution based on SSI technique. I use Ubuntu and Tomcat 7.0.11. How can I enable SSI at tomcat?
There are many solutions to this problem. You can write simple JavaScript code to include parts of your page on load, you can enable SSI on your web-server, and finally you can use any server-side language to dynamically include chunks of any page for output. Your choice depends on how dynamic your web-site is.
You can include html files using frames or iframes. If you're using a server side language such as PHP or ASP you can do this without frames using includes.
If you wanted to strictly use HTML (and assuming you are using JS too) I would do the following:
You could have a <div> for the header, I will call it <div id="header">.
Using jQuery we could say something like: $('#header').load(---html file---);. Aside from the pain it might be to include the JS file in all pages, it will allow you to make changes to the header globally throughout your application.
I'm trying to include an html file within another html file. the include acts as a menu and footer. i'm using the current include syntax but my html data is not displaying on the page. my include files sit at the root. i've tried:
<!--#include virtual="header.html" -->
<!--#include file="navigation.html"-->
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<!--#include virtual="header.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="navigation.html"-->
<p>test<p>
<!--#include virtual="footer.html"-->
</body>
</html>
Check if your server has server-side includes (SSIs) enabled.
edit: Also, you should remove the first set of includes that come before the html tag - that's invalid.
Apache webserver? Do you have "mod_include" enabled? Do you have either in .htaccess or httpd.conf the setting "Options +Includes" set?
Includes are server side, you'll need to save the main file as an .asp file and work with it on a server (assuming your server is ASP enabled, your syntax certainly makes that look as if it's the case).
a lot of info lays here: http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/include.html, if it runs in the server i would go for <?php include("filename.html"); ?> since most of the servers also have php, if not you can always use .js
P.S. i won't mentions html possible problems since other answers i think mentioned all i know...
The Netscape Navigator frames extension (cf. Wikipedia's Framing article) and its successors allow you to write HTML pages that reference other pages for inclusion. The browser then assembles the viewed page by making multiple HTTP requests. Note:
It's a horrible way to serve up webpages: there's no well-behaved document model for it. But it is fairly well supported by browsers. So this answer is for information's sake, not a recommendation; and
It creates viewed pages by juxtaposition, not inclusion, so it's not really what you were after, semantically speaking. But you can use it to solve your problem: the menu and footer bars are mini HTML pages that sit next to the page containing the main content.