How can I include an HTML file in another HTML file. Is there any simple way to do that?
Thanks
I think you're looking for server side includes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes. To summarize (and oversimplify) change the extension of your page from .html page to .shtml, then you should be able to use an include statement similar to:
<!--#include virtual="somefile.html" -->
You might be looking for information on iframes (live example).
<html>
<body>
<iframe src ="/default.asp" width="100%" height="300">
<p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p>
</iframe>
</body>
</html>
Are you serving the HTML files from a web server like IIS or Apache? Both support server-side includes:
<!--#include virtual="nameOfFileToInclude.html" -->
A page at the WWW FAQs explains.
Well if you have any server-side scripting language available all will perform fine at this task. Another option would be html-frames (in your case most likely an iframe), or ajax (asynchrounus javascript request).
My preferred method employs PHP, if that is installed on your server. If so, the simplest way to do it is just insert this code at the appropriate place in your containing file: <?php include('filename.php') ?>
Note that both files must have the extension .php.
You could use server side includes (ie. Apache SSI doc).
Frames would be the only other way I can think of which would not require the usage of a programming language on either the server or client side.
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I'm trying to build a simple HTML page with a navbar that is an include. I've been told that the server I'm building on is an iss server. Here is the html include that I'm trying to use.
<html>
<body>
<!--#include virtual="navbar.inc"-->
<p>Content</p>
</body>
</html>
I currently have index.html and navbar.inc right next to each other in the same directory.
This isn't working and I'm not sure why.
You can't do this without using the server side code. ASP, in other words
Change the extension of your index file to .asp, and try it again.
A better explanation is that HTML, being on the client (browser) side, is unaware of any files currently on the server. ASP, on the other hand will see what you have there, and execute it, effectively including the file from the server.
Read th e following article, it works.
http://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_html_include.asp
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.
I'm front-end developer and in work I use Twig with Symfony2 on Apache server. But now I have to make mockups in HTML, CSS on my interaction computer-human course on university. I need some application to able to including other html file in html file, extending html file with other html file - something similar like in Twig include and extend features. Does something like that exist?
I'd rather don't use html frame.
You could use server side includes - but this requires a server (hence the name !!)
Then you could, for example add a header to each page:
<!--#include virtual="header.html" -->
Apache, nginx, lighttpd and IIS are the four major web servers that support this language.
Your other option would be to use JavaScript and AJAX to pull in other content post load.
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.