I have created an HTML page 'header.html'. Then I need to implement the same header on about, services, contact page.
I know that we can do it via PHP Include. But as an HTML Developer, Is there any way to use like this in HTML without using third party code, especially in HTML 5?
Also I came to know that Dreamweaver has an option to make templates file. But I don't know is it valid in Web 3.0 and W3c.
Please Help me.
You need either a server-side language like PHP or Server Side Includes, or you use something like Dreamweaver which will assemble HTML files for you from parts which you then upload to the server. You cannot do it browser-side using HTML only.
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What are the most common options for templating HTML files for static pages, to minimize maintenance and redundancy? An example of my question would be Adobe Dreamweaver.
Consider using a server-side scripting language such as PHP or ASP.NET. These produce dynamically built web-pages meaning that you can code it in such a way that headers/footers etc are separate from the main content, meaning you change that link once rather than 30 times.
If server-side scripting is not an option, I'd suggest having a look at Dreamweaver. This will enable you to create templates, and then create pages based on those templates. When you modify that link in the template, all pages that use that template will be updated. This will give you what you want without the server-side scripting.
why dont you use iframe inside ? ( which will contain a single navigation html page...)?
If you're using a server-side language like PHP, you can start to use the include function. So you'll include in a different file your navigation bar and then include it in every file of your website. Thus, every change to the navigation bar file will affect all the others files.
If you are writing only static pages, it isn't possible. Maybe you can try SSI.
Typically you need either a fancy program (like Dreamweaver and its templates functionality) or some sort of server-side scripting. Languages like php, asp, etc might be a bit much if the only thing you are looking to do is as you describe, so I might look into seeing if your server support server side includes (SSI).
I want to create some html help pages, separate html pages.
However, I want to have the same content on the top and bottom of the pages.
In the past I've used PHP or ASP, with header and footer files.
I've then had to do view source and save these pages to get what I want.
I just wondered if there an easiest way to do this ?
EDIT:
The pages are for use with software using a web object not a normal browser. So there won't be a web server
If your web server supports it, you could do server side includes
You could use frames, but it's not necessarily advisable (for one, it breaks navigation).
You could use XML files with an XSLT stylesheet to turn them into HTML documents that share similar elements.
You could use PHP or another server-side language to generate the pages, and then use a recursive download tool (such as wget) to turn them into HTML.
EDIT: you're basically asking whether the "standard-ish" subset of HTML supported by your component of choice provides a way of including data from a common file, just so you won't have to include the data in every HTML document.
The answer hovers somewhere between "no way" and "maybe your component has a few tricks to do that".
The sane thing to do here would be to have a tool generate the HTML documents from a common template. Could be XML + XSLT, PHP/ASP/whatever, or a fully-fledged CMS (this actually helps let non-technical users write the document contents).
It's awful, but you could include a JS file that uses a bunch of document.write("...") to include common elements. Not SEO friendly.
Let say you are working on a website template that has many pages (index.html, blog.html, contact.html...). You start by designing the home page and then move on to other pages. While you are on other pages, you think of some improvements and these improvements must affect the whole website.
So I return to each page and make the change. This is quite unproductive especially when you have 6 or more pages and sometimes you forget to update the change.
If it were PHP, I would do
require ('header.php');
This worked for me well. But right now, I'm working on HTML and don't really like to transform to PHP and then again to HTML.
So do you have a specific method/way of doing this?
You can use server-side includes to get the effect you want, if your server supports them.
You can use PHP to include a number of smaller HTML files. The PHP script is minimal. No "transform" is required. Just something like require('header.html'); require('body.html'); require('footer.html'); or some such.
If what you're worried about is having to write a lot of PHP, you can use a templating engine such as Smarty TPL to clearly separate the code from the pages and minimize the amount of coding you have to do. This has the added advantage of having HTML "generators" that will automatically do things like producing radio buttons for you or obfuscating email addresses.
You can use CSS to centralize styles for your page so you can make site-wide appearance, layout, and design changes by modifying the stylesheet.
If you're working with HTML pages, (e.g. including extensions .htm and .html), consider using Server Side Includes. This approach works with basic HTML parsing, and is supported by most/all major web servers, including Apache and IIS.
Simply include this text in your .html file:
<!--#include virtual="header.html" -->
The web server will then fetch the markup in that file, and will insert it inline in the page it's currently serving.
You could use PHP as a pre-processor, a code generator. Run the PHP on your local computer, then save the static HTML pages it produces and post them to production. You could write a little script to visit each of your PHP pages and save the corresponding HTML. Then you could have the convenience of PHP at design time and the simplicity of HTML in production.
If you use dynamic pages like JSP or asp.net, you can have your page template included, and then content added. But what if you have no server-side component and all pages are just HTML/JS? You can of course create a template then copy it for each page, but then if you want to change something you risk having to modify every page, even if you put most styling in CSS properly.
Are there any non-awful ways to do this? I could see that an iframe could be used to load the content into the central page but that sounds nasty. Does HTML provide any way to include a base file and add to it?
You can use Server Side Includes to include other files on the server. It's similar to scripting languages like ASP or php, but SSI is usually supported by the server directly, so it's available on many servers, even if there is scripting language available.
The answer is still templates. Just process them offline instead of on the server. I like to use ttree for this.
You can create the pages offline and render into HTML, and deploy those to the site.
One option might be: https://github.com/thewml but it does feel ... "too much". I also saw asciidoc for creating sites ( https://asciidoc.org/ ) and I also used several times doxygen for that ( http://www.doxygen.nl/ ).
I also saw CMS that create static HTML files, but hey are no longer maintained.
I am creating some static html pages outside a .net and outside a ruby-on-rails environment.
I created a menu I want to share between several pages, but I'm wondering how this is done using regular html constructs (i.e. without .net's master pages and without rail's layouts)
Is there a way to do this without cutting and pasting?
What web server are you using? It's likely you'll have to enable Server Side Includes in order to use:
Save the HTML for the common elements of your site as separate files. For example, your navigation section might be saved as navigation.html or navigation.ssi.
Use the following SSI tag to include that HTML in each page.
<!--#include virtual="path to file/include-file.html" -->
Use that same code on every page that you want to include the file.
Reference: http://webdesign.about.com/od/ssi/a/aa052002a.htm
To share common HTML snippets between pages, you'll need some sort of server-side "code".
The simplest thing you could do that I know if would be Server Side Includes, "SSI"
see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/ssi.html#includingastandardfooter
There are basically two options: frames (or iframes) or javascript. Frames come with a whole host of problems and I really don't recommend you go down this route. Have a look at PURE javascript library for clean and simple client-side templating.