Posted by Water Cooler v2 on 07/12/06 16:20

Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote:
> Water Cooler v2 wrote:
> > Are HTML frames a good thing or a bad thing?
>
> Well they're not as bad as cross-posting one of the most obvious and
> easily searched-for web authoring questions you could possibly ask.
>
> So yes, use frames. Do whatever you like. If it was really going to
> make a difference to you, you'd have noticed by now.



Thanks, Stephen and Els. I got it. I always used to wonder how they
squeeze something like the navigation bar to the left because HTML is
normally written horizontally, if you know what I mean -- what comes
first is put above until the space on that row gets over.

I got it now.

[PAGE_SOURCE]margin: 0 0 0 11em;[/PAGE_SOURCE]

I know a little bit of CSS. Actually, I know almost all of it until
before CSS 2 that has different selectors for different media. But the
problem is that I've used only very little of it. To be honest, I'm
mostly a library developer who works on C, C#, VB 6, VB.NET and Win32
API. I've done almost no Web development except for practice and an
incomplete ASP.NET project for real.

Now, a different question. Just for exploring all different
alternatives and possibilities.

Suppose that the navigation bar is something I want to place on every
Web page over my website. And I want the content of the navigation bar
also to be constant. I can then design a separate HTML page that
carries the code for the navigation bar.

If my understanding is correct, some CGI/ISAPI filters such as ASP/PHP
provide for server side includes. Using the server side includes, the
programmer can point to the content of the HTML/PHP/ASP/CGI file
containing the navigation bar code into every Web page that needs the
navigation bar.

But those includes, if I understand correctly, are not built into a Web
server. They're extensions provided by ISAPI or whatever other web
server API. So, they're accessible only when you are doing server-side
programming such as ASP/PHP etc.

In plain HTML, using only HTML and nothing but HTML (or may be some
lite JavaScript), is it possible to include content from another HTML
page into the current page?

I hope I've made my question clear.

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