Posted by Andy Dingley on 03/12/07 14:32

On 12 Mar, 13:31, "Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaugh...@Hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm learing html and I have a nav bar that I want to always be displayed on
> the top of the page.

"Server side include" Just search around for that.

> What about an iframe?

I can't imagine any situation where HTML learners are best served by
using an <iframe>

> I was thinking of including the nav bar on every page

Yes.

> linked by it

I don't know what you mean by that.

> but that seems kinda redundant

That's why we have computers. Make them do lots of dumb stuff for you,
even if it's sometimes wasteful, so that you can instead run and play
in the fruit-filled Elysian fields of robot-supported leisure.

> (I know the browser will cache the images

Nav bar doesn't necessarily mean images. In most cases it _shouldn't_
mean images. Certainly you should get it all working in pure-text
first.


PS - best HTML tutorial book (perhaps the only good one) is O'Reilly's
"Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML".

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