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**Smoking Man** · 03-25-2006, 10:03 PM

I want a CSS menu on each page, the menu will be the same on all pages. Is there a way to link to it and have it as an external file, or do I have to code it into every page?

**angele803** · 03-26-2006, 12:56 AM

You can use server side includes. I just did this for a web site I made for someone and it is such a headache relief. Just do a search on SSI or server side includes. There are several ways to do them, some with php, some without. Do some searching around and decide the way you like best.

**amygdela** · 03-27-2006, 06:33 AM

SSI is nice, but you need to save your page as filename.shtml to make them work. A PHP include on the other hand just works on .php pages:

<?php include ("yourfile.php"); ?>

**Recrehal** · 03-27-2006, 01:24 PM

How about creating a template? Then you'll have that one line of code in every website you create. Or just start with the same file everytime; you probably do that with the rubbish <header> <title> <body> anyway. As for external CSS: I'm sure you can do absolute calls like this <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.bla.org/intro.css">

**The Ape** · 12:24 AM

Php include.

I put up the example below for someone else wanting his frames to work a certain way. I think this will help you as well. All you need to do is create a file with your menu, still using html, and save it as menu.inc Then in all the pages you want it to appear, you simply add <?php include ("menu.inc"); ?>

*note* your pages names have to end with .php rather than .html.

http://www.apethumb.arttriad.com/testphp/page_1.php

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