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.
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I have a basic index.html file in a folder, as well as many, many other files. I want them all to use the same CSS file, without having to manually add to every file. I was wondering if you renamed the file index.css or something like that it would automatically load into every HTML file in the folder? Out of curiosity, is there also a Javascript method for this too?
Bad news my friend No. There is no magical tool that will import the CSS into all of your files. You have to do it yourself. Also it's really easy
Get the CSS file
Import the CSS File
See it's that easy. Was it so hard to do it?
You can't do that with simple HTML.
Do a PHP template instead, basically with:
head
header
nav menu
a content/container div/section
footer
Then, include your HTML/PHP page in your content.
For instance, use $_GET or $_POST to know which page to include.
I have a few .html files in a project I am working on for a class. All with the same header and footer. We are required to use SSI with Apache, but I am having trouble looking for a way to have my includes code acknowledged by WebStorm. To be honest, I'd be content with just a way to include the same code header by using just one line of code, but I'd rather not have to replace the code with SSI code in every page before I hand it in.
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.
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?
I got a realtive big project for what I have many plain HTML pages. All the pages have the same template, but when I change one value in the template I have to change all the other pages manually.
Is there a way to do it like less for CSS or CoffeeScript for JS?
Lg Knerd
If all you have are plain HTML pages you could use SSI although it is a bit dated and youll need to be running this on a web server like Apache.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
Personally I would use php so I could just include the files with the php include function