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**violent_twinkie** · 07-15-2005, 07:23 PM

hi

i got this problem:

i have this cool nested dropdown list that is very painful and boring to edit. i have the html, css, and javascript in another file, and i want to find a way to show that in all the websites i need to by only editing it once and uploading it, and in doing so, eliminating the need to painfully update it on every page every time i change it. I've already tried it with an iframe and i saw the list, but when i rolled the mouse over it it changed the text color and background color changed, but i couldn't see the dropdown options.

its possible i did something wrong there; this is only my hobby.

thanks!

**brokensoul2271** · 07-15-2005, 07:26 PM

I'd imagin this is something php includes would be useful for.. I'm only starting out with PHP though so you'd have to ask someone else, sorry...

**fancymoustache** · 07-15-2005, 09:16 PM

Yes... PHP includes are the way to go! I'll give you an example:

PHP Code:


			
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title>

 Sample

</title>

</head>

<body>

<?php

 //Change "menu.txt" to your own file

 include('menu.txt');

?>

<p>The rest of your webpage can go here</p>

</body>

</html>

You'll need to save this file as *.php. It will call up all the code from your menu file and put it in with the rest of your page. You can do this with as many pages as you need.

Hope that helps,
Micah

**Synchronize** · 07-15-2005, 09:18 PM

The reason you couldn't see your menus was probably because the iframe was too small to show it. Think of an iFrame like a ... box, that is held inside the website, in that box you can only see what fits in it. The menu dropdowns are outside the visible area so you can't see them unless you were to use a scrollbar which probably isn't an option. The only way I can think of doing it is in PHP. If you have PHP installed you could just put this.

PHP Code:


			
<?php include("file.html"); ?>

Where the menu is installed and it will include the menu there. Just add that to every page. Of course this will only work when the site is running off of a server, so if you were to look at the page on your computer all you'd see is a blank space. Hopefully this solves your problem. I can't see any other solution than this though. So hoepfully you have PHP installed.

**Synchronize** · 07-15-2005, 09:20 PM

Oh, I guess someone submitted an answer right before I did. Well, we both have similar answers so hope you can get it to work

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