OT - includes in ASP code...

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OT - includes in ASP code...

Poster: tepidarium
Dated: Tuesday March 23 2004 - 20:24:39 UTC

Does anyone know how to use the #include directive to include a seperate heaer and footer include at the top and botom respectively of an asp file that only contains asp program code and no html tags.

this does not work:

Code:

<--#include virtual="/includes/top.shtml" -->

<%

asp code

%>

<!--#include virtual="/includes/bottom.shtml" -->

Basically, what will happen is that the top.shtml file will be included but it will wind up as html code before the <html> tag.

The bottom include will not show up at all because it is included after the </html> tag.

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Poster: waitman
Dated: Thursday May 13 2004 - 7:48:23 UTC

why don't you make one template file and do something like this.

1. content.asp

Code:

strContent = "<h3>Title</h3><p>foo bar foomazooma</p>"

Set FO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
fn = Server.MapPath("layout.html")
Set TemplateFile = FO.OpenTextFile(fn)
strLayout = TemplateFile.ReadAll

strLayout = Replace( strLayout, "<!--Content-->", strContent )

Response.Write strContent

2. layout.html

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<!--Content-->
</body>
</html>

Then you (or your designers) can actually create layouts using something like Dreamweaver if you really want to. Also, only accessing 2 files instead of 3.

I find that this method makes life much better.

Best Regards,

Industrial Strength JavaScript and DHTML Menus

OT - includes in ASP code...

this works better