how to include html file?

[ashley Jug]

hello,

i am new to the css world. basically i am designing a website where i have a footer which is defined in a separate file called footer.html. I have a home page called home.html and i want to include the footer in the home.html. Both files home.html and footer.html are found in a folder called WebApp.

I have tried to put the following code in my home.html file to call the footer but nothing is displayed

<!--#include FILE="footer.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="footer.html"-->

Any suggestion please?

I am using eclipse IDE and Apache Tomcat Server 6 to execute the html file.

Thanks in advance.

[Chris Baron]

Hi,
where do you've got that syntax from?
Is the page where you are trying this in an html file or something else like asp?

[ashley Jug]

Helo,

Thanks for your response,I got the code from an online tutorial(http://dimaroan.home.xs4all.nl/htl/faq15.html) but cannot display the footer
It is an html file.
Thanks in advance.

[Bear Bibeault]

There is no way in pure HTML to perform an inclusion.

Are you using any server-side tempting such as JSP, ASP or PHP? Those have include mechanisms.

[Bear Bibeault]

Apache also provides a server-side include mechanism that must be enabled before it can be used.

[ashley Jug]

Thanks a lot for the response, instead of html,as you suggested i am using jsp where i can use include file. Regarding Apache the server-side include mechanism is there any online resources where i can learn how to do it?

Thanks again it was very helpful and learning also.

[Bear Bibeault]

If you are using JSP, just use one of the JSP include directive or action.