Re: import text using CSS?

by David Kendall <david(at)homepagesplus.com>

 Date:  Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:14:04 -0500
 To:  hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
 In-Reply-To:  localhost
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> 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?

I recently asked a similar question on list.  What I came up with (I 
don't know if it was suggested by a listmember or I thought of it) 
was the <iframe> command.  I have my table of contents in an html 
document, and on every page I just have a space on the page that I 
want it  to appear on, and the code in that space is the <iframe> 
command.  That way, changes in the table of contents only have to 
be done ont he master file, the <iframe> comand will link to the 
updated file.
 
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