Posted by Ed Mullen on 08/28/06 23:49

fraternitydisposal@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm making a personal site which contains links like home, resume,
> feedback, hobbies, links in every page. And i've managed to create an
> external css. How can i insert the said links in every page without
> copying and pasting the links in every page?
>
> My webhost doesn't support server side scripting. Can i store the links
> in an external file and insert them by client side scripting? Please
> help.
>

You could put the menu (links) in an external file and have it inserted
dynamically into each page via javascript. The pluses are that it
doesn't rely on server-side functions and you can change one file and
have it change every page on your site. The minus is that visitors must
have javascript enabled for your pages to work properly. You may well
see lots of negative comments in html and css newsgroups about
javascript. I personally find most of the concerns unfounded.

My site uses this technique. I have a header that is used on every
page. The content of the header is several buttons containing the menu
navigation system. All of the header info comes from the same file. To
change the menu on 200+ pages on my site I change just one or two files.

See Design Considerations at: http://edmullen.net/siteinfo.html

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