Posted by fraternitydisposal on 08/29/06 00:16

Ed Mullen wrote:
> 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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> Ed Mullen
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This is what I'm looking for. But i'm failing to understand and modify
your javascript to fit my needs. I possible mention a good source to
learn javascript.

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