Is it possible to include header and footer file using HTML

[montyauto]

Is it possible to include a header and footer file using HTML?

I have my file as a .html and need to be able to include the HTML for the header and footer.

Anyone know how I can do this?

[alex-party]

Yes, only with frames, but I would not suggest doing that.

[fjpoblam]

...yes, I had the same temptation, early in my large website. I noticed, as you are probably noticing, that all the pages have roughly the same header and footer. You can do it easily doing a PHP self-file or a javascript-write imbedded in the "head" and "tail" of each one.

But then, the question pops up, are you doing it for YOUR ease of maintenance? You should, in the end, consider, your visitor's ease of viewing, and bite the bullet, and place the same ol' header and footer, hand-coded or copied and pasted, into each file. Use lots of CSS and place that CSS in one shared external file. It'll speed up the load for each page, in the long run.

[MomsBreak]

Originally Posted by montyauto

Is it possible to include a header and footer file using HTML?

I have my file as a .html and need to be able to include the HTML for the header and footer.

Anyone know how I can do this?

If you are using frontpage 2003 software to build your web site then you only need to look on the help files for page includes. Then you can pull one html file into another html file that runs site wide.

There also a php includes coding you can do.

[parusa619]

Originally Posted by montyauto

Is it possible to include a header and footer file using HTML?

I have my file as a .html and need to be able to include the HTML for the header and footer.

Anyone know how I can do this?

Yes, possible, for now, you can include any files using php codes in HTML. Put this in your .htaccess

PHP Code:

RemoveHandler .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html 


Then after that, put your codes in header.txt and footer.txt and do this in each and every page you have

PHP Code:

 <?
include('header.txt');
?>
<!-- content -->
<?
 include('footer.txt');
 ?>

[intelliot]

It's also technically possible to use JavaScript, but this is more hassle than it's worth.

Additionally, if your web server supports it, you can enable SSI parsing of .html files in .htaccess. This will let you use SSI (server-side include) directives in your .html files!