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Boris Vukobrat
4,248 PointsCode reuse in HTML
Is it a good practice to iframe a header, for example, so using same small html file for header around entire site?
3 Answers
Austin Whipple
29,725 PointsUsing a server-side scripting language for simply including template files might be a bit of overkill. Server-side includes (.shtml files), would likely be the easiest and doesn't require knowledge of another programing language to accomplish what you're after.
EDIT: Probably not a great idea to use iFrames for this either due to styling problems and potentially ugly code.
geoffrey
28,736 PointsIt's honestly a good question, in my recents projects I 've used a server side language such as PHP, so I have a separated file for the header named header.php, and this one is included everytime in each page, if needed.
But I've never thought about that for a static website, I've searched on google and It seems some people tell It's good, while some others tell It's not...
Maybe Nick Pettit could enlight us on this point.
Boris Vukobrat
4,248 PointsThere is also a JS and jQuery solutions, which are perhaps better then PHP in some situations.
Maybe, W3 Consortium will introduce in HTML6 an attribute for header like
<header src="my_header.html">
: ))
Santiago Blanco
2,939 PointsYou can use angular and create your owns directives and reuse html. Or maybe you want to try with polymer.