Re: import text using CSS?

by "David Jones" <dvjones(at)ksbe.edu>

Date:	Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:54:02 -1000
To:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	localhost
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I don't think you can do that with CSS, but it would be 
child's play with server-side includes. If your hosting 
service provides PHP, easily done!

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

On 10 Jun 2004, at 18:36, denise wrote:

> One of the things I use CSS for is to fix the position of
> a menu on the website.
> 
> Someone has asked me if I can use CSS to import the
> contents of the menu into the box without having to type
> out each item on the menu.
> 
> For example, the current website I'm working on-
> www.northernmediators.co.uk has a menu on the right hand
> side of the screen, and on each page the menu is
> replicated and in the source, the same text for that menu
> appears.
> 
> If that menu ever has to change, then every page for the
> website will also have to be changed.  So is there a way
> of having the menu contents in the CSS so its only changed
> the once?
> 
> Hope someone understand what I'm going on about!
> 
> regards
> Denise

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