HTML help

PrototypePacifist · February 2nd, 2005, 10:47 PM

Hello, I'm pretty new at HTML and I'm just starting to get into more advanced things. Anyways, on the site I'm building now I'm making it with a menu bar to the left, and then a bar that's going to have something else in it to the right, and in the middle is the actual webpage. http://prototypepacifist.50megs.com is an example of what I'm talking about. Well right now I'm having to make changes to every page if I want it to show up on all of the pages, and I was wondering if there was a way I could make the menu bar and the bar on the right as one html file or something, and then making separate html files that will go in the middle of the pages?

Also, I'm putting some pictures and some artwork up on the site as thumbnails, and then having the pictures actually open up in a new empty window when you click on the thumbnail. Is there a way to do this and have the new window automatically fit around the image, without actually having to define the size of the new window?

Thanks for all the help I may recieve. I appreciate all of it.

Vadivel · February 3rd, 2005, 01:40 AM

If you are using only HTML then make use of Client side includes. Say for example you want copyright information to appear in all pages. Just make use of document.write and create a .js file. As you can't have plain html directly inside .js file ... we are using document.write. Now you can make use of <script src> tag to include this copyright info in all other pages in your site.

File 1:
<html>
   <head>
      <title>Demo of client side include</title>
   </head>

<body>
   <p>Below line would be INCLUDED from another file</p>
      <script src="FileInclude.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
   <p>Above line is included from another file. But I belong to this file only :)</p>
</body>
</html>

File 2:
Just write below line of code in notepad and save it as "FileInclude.js"

document.write("<b>This text is coming from another file</b>")

Best Regards
Vadivel

MVP ASP/ASP.NET
http://vadivel.thinkingms.com

PrototypePacifist · February 3rd, 2005, 02:14 AM

Thank you. I appreciate your help very much.

I just found this site yesterday, and I have to say it's one of the greatest sites I've ever stumbled upon. Everyone seems eager to help, and they do it in a great way.

*edit*What you said works, but I'm looking for something almost exactly like what you told me, only something that will let me use html code in the .js file. Is there any way this can be done, or am I being difficult?

Will Java programming help me with stuff like this, because I'm just starting a Java Programming book, but it's not about HTML. Is it the same either way, or are they different?

meow · February 3rd, 2005, 04:50 AM

Sorry, but I don't agree.

"JavaScript includes" are a plaything, nothing more. Users without JavaScript support won't be able to navigate your site. Neither will search engines. If you can't use server side scripting, rather find a way to easily generate the updated files on your computer. After all, it's just a matter of major Find & Replace.

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Vadivel · February 3rd, 2005, 05:10 AM

Server side includes are also there. You can use server side includes in ASP. (Search for "#include" in google).

Sorry I have no clue about Java as I have not worked on that.

Best Regards
Vadivel

MVP ASP/ASP.NET
http://vadivel.thinkingms.com