I'm in the process of creating a website.
I have a menu bar which is common for all the pages. I want to call the HTML page which contains the menu bar from any page within my site.
Is there any syntax to include HTML files so that I can solve my issue.
If so how to do it?
You need to use php extension for you files instead of html and call your header with
<?php include_once('header.php'); ?>
where you want header to be displayed
If you are working on local machine install xampp or you will not be able to see your website because php is server side scripting language
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You are describing server side includes.
Server Side Includes are useful for including a common piece of code throughout a site, such as a page header, a page footer and a navigation menu.
Example of usage:
<!--#include virtual="../quote.txt" -->
This will add the text of quote.txt to the page - if you add it to multiple pages, you can make your change in this one file and it will show on all pages in was included in.
Different web servers have different support and additional features for these, so you need to check the documentation for yours.
Many websites that need dynamic features (like fetching data from a database) will use some kind of server side scripting language for this kind of functionality - examples include PHP, Perl, ASP.NET, JSP and many more.
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When building an MVC project, there's a shared folder automatically provided in which I have Layout.cshtml page that's used like the holder or master page (as it was called in Web Forms). So, all the banners, navbars, footers etc. go in there, while the acutal pages being developed refer to it in the source code and got pasted together upon rendition. This far I'm following.
Now, I have a set up and AspNet website using Yeoman and the only thing I have is wwwroot directory in which I put the file start.html. (It's the same as index.html - I just wanted to try out if I have full control over default files.)
I'm unsure how to proceed. I.e. I'd like the links on the start.html to point to files like uno.html, duo.html etc. and read those into a designated part of the landing page (i.e. start.html).
Is it doable without using the magic of templates? I want to have full control over the rendition process.
There's no point googling it, I noticed, because anything I've got the last two hours leads to how to create master page not to how to emulate master page.
Well, the static files middleware is just for that: static files.
You roughly have two options:
Do everything client sided, i.e. rather than having normal links use javascript/ajax calls and embed the content of the static file in your start.html using javascript.
It should work, but has several down-sites like it requires javascript to work (not a big issue these days, except for the paranoids who use no-script browser extensions) and that web crawler still may have issues properly indexing ajax heavy web pages
Wait until ASP.NET Core 1.2 (scheduled for Q1-Q2 2017), which will add Razor Pages. Pages rendered with Razor template engine, but without the need of a controller.
1.2
WebSockets
SignalR
Razor Pages (Views without MVC controllers)
Web API security
If you don't wanna wait, try RazorLight, which is 3rd party open source library for rendering Razor views.
But all except the first one require some "magic template engine".
You could of course write an server-sided includes (SSI) middleware which would be based on UseStaticFiles middleware and parse the file and include the html files server sided before returning it. There is nothing out of the box for it as far as I know.
I have been trying to incorporate my navigation bar into each page of my website using a server side include. My goal is to be able to just change one file and each page would have the amendment. I have recently asked a question about this and got a solid response: <!--#include virtual="menu.cgi" --> or <!--#include file="footer.html" -->
This sounds like it works great but in my coding editor, brackets. It treats this as a comment and therefore does not work.
Server Side Includes, as their name suggests, are a feature of a web server.
They shouldn't "work" in a text editor. That is just a tool to let you edit the code. (And the syntax is designed to be the same as HTML comment syntax so that tools handling plain HTML will treat them as comments).
Test your code using a web server.
I have two domains pointing to the same wiki sharing the same database.
I would like it so that with domainA.com the main page is MainPageA and with domainB.com it is MainPageB.
The only way to change the the main page of MediaWiki that I know of is to edit MediaWiki:Mainpage, but that is stored in the MySQL database. Since both wikis are sharing the same database, both main pages get changed too.
The reason that the databases are shared is because all articles apply to both wikis, just that the logo of the wiki etc. is different.
Is there some kind of PHP conditional variable I can set to set the Main Page?
You could do this in wikicode, by making your Main Page source look something like this:
{{#switch:{{SERVERNAME}}
|domainA.com={{:Main Page for domainA.com}}
|domainB.com={{:Main Page for domainB.com}}
|#default=<span class=error>Unrecognized domain {{SERVERNAME}}.</span>
}}
or even just:
{{:Main Page for {{SERVERNAME}}}}
For more information, see Help:Magic words at mediawiki.org. (Note that the first version also requires the ParserFunctions extension.)
Ps. There might be some issues with MediaWiki's parser caching that could cause the wrong Main Page to appear. If so, a quick and dirty workaround would be to install the MagicNoCache extension and add __NOCACHE__ to the Main Page.
Pps. A better solution for cache issues might be to make sure that the different sites have separate cache keys, by adding the following line to your LocalSettings.php:
$wgRenderHashAppend .= "!$wgServer";
I'm new to html and was wondering if there is a way to apply the same content to many html files at once.
For example, if I have many pages, but all those pages have an identical navigation side panel that contains links to all the other pages. Is there any way to change the contents of this side panel without changing it for each individual page?
i.e. is there a feature that allows me to make this navigation panel in a separate file, then tell all my pages to include this navigation file?
I know a css file can control the format of many html pages - is there an analogy to this that can control the content of many html pages?
You can use PHP to do that. Write the HTML code in PHP file, then add include statement in your HTML. This saves you from having to write same code again and again specially for navigation, etc.
PHP manual explains it.
Hope it helps.
You can write the common content in javascript file and include it in your html pages using script tag:
<script src="YOUR_FILE.js"></script>
You can use an online HTML to Javascript converter like this one to generate you javascript code.
Server-side includes or server-side programming languages (like PHP, for example), are often used to do that. All pages just include a shared common file, which contains the common content.
<?php
include(file with extension);
?>
You'd have to change your file extension that runs this code to DOT php
I am new to HTML. I have an html page named "main.html" and i want to include another html page called "menu.html" in it. My main.html page doesn't include frames and it is designed using div tags. My site is hosted on linux based server The site I have to redesign is Java questions.
You want to look at Server Side Includes (SSI). This tutorial by Apache should get you up and running if that site is running on Apache.
There are plenty of Server Side ways of doing this, but all except SSI require the use of a language other than HTML.
If you're using IIS, you can check out Microsoft's writeup on Server Side Includes.
Check out server side includes.
You should use server-side includes.
i.e. in jsp you can use: <c:import url="/include/navigation.jsp" />, in php <?php include("/sidebar.php");?> and so on.
This is the good way to do what you need: include a navigation menu, or other parts common to all pages, without rewriting it in each page.
You can also do the same in other ways (with some javascript i.e.) but I doubt that you want to build a site called Java Questions without any server side language.
I think that PHP is the easiest way to do this. Most of the time you can just change your main.html file to main.php then add this php code where you want the menu bar:
<?php include('menu.html'); ?>
And that's it! You have to make sure that php is installed on your sever. Also this will ONLY work on a server. So if you are testing on your computer and using something like dreamweaver (or even a browser), you won't see anything until it's online.
You can make an ajax call in javascript if you want to avoid using the server.
In JQuery you would do:
<div id="putStuffHere">
</div>
<script>
$('#putStuffHere').load('myStuff.html');
</script>