ASP.NET Forum

**dangerousdee181** · 01-27-2005, 07:53 AM

Hi. Still trying to teach myself ASP. In my book they use #INCLUDE FILE to use standardheader.asp to display the same web banner on the each page of the site. The standardheader.asp (below) I understand.

<html><head><title>Standard Header</title></head>
<body><img src="header.jpg"></body>

The book also gives the following code for including the header.

<!-- #INCLUDE FILE="standardheader.asp" --!>

It does not however, tell you where to put the above code. I am also not sure to save the file as a .htm or .asp.

Thanks for the help.

**Anacrusis** · 01-27-2005, 09:26 AM

Save it as ASP and put the INCLUDE code any where you want the contents of standardheader.asp to apear on your page.

**dangerousdee181** · 01-27-2005, 09:34 AM

perfect!!!

thank you

**dangerousdee181** · 01-27-2005, 12:39 PM

Now that it is working, another question.

If I am using the asp page as a template so each page on my site has the banner, does that mean that all of my files will be .asp and not .htm? If yes, that would be bad if I were using an older, slower web server as my host. Is there a better way to do this?

**Anacrusis** · 01-27-2005, 12:47 PM

If your not using any ASP code in your pages and are only using the include code. Then all your pages can use the .shtml extention.

**dangerousdee181** · 02-10-2005, 11:05 AM

What is the difference between html and shtml?

**Minaki** · 02-10-2005, 11:32 AM

shtml contains server side code and is actually a little outdated.

As good practise, I'd say:
For any files with just HTML (no server side language such as ASP) use .htm
For files with any ASP code in them at all, use .asp

If you stick to that rule, it's easier not to get confusded.