Re: Text loading question Dec. 10, 2008
 

E.D.G. wrote:

> Posted by E.D.G. December 10, 2008
>
> Is there an html command that can be used to get text in some file to
> automatically load into an html document in the same way that a
> picture file can be loaded with the <IMG SRC="URL"> command?
>
> Checking Web sites regarding presently available html commands it does
> not
> appear that such a text merging command exists. And it is surprising
> to me that this is the case.
>
> The goal is to have the same text appear within more than one html
> file just
> as the same picture file can appear in more than one file. Then when
> changes are needed in that text they can be made once in the original
> file. And when any of files containing a link to that text is
> displayed with a Web browser the text will automatically display in
> the correct location in that file.

You can do this with SSI (Server Side Includes), a CGI script, PHP
script, you can use browser side methods such as JavaScript, etc. as
well.
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