[RESOLVED] i hate my menu...

[getret]

Ok, I have a multi level vertical menu on my site. Every time I want to add another link to the site I have to update nearly every page on my site and it takes forever.
Is there some way to have a menu (css, or a css+javascript) referenced from each page? Then when i want to update the menu I only need to update it on one page, and the other pages will see it.
Maybe some menu page containing only the menu???

Any ideas?

[tracknut]

Do a search for "include file" - there are several ways you can do this, that are well documented over and over. A php include is the most common method, it seems, I'm not sure a client-side solution (other than FrontPage and presumably DW) will address this.

Dave

[getret]

thanks. i found a ton of stuff on server side includes, but i can't get it to work yet.
i guess this
<!-- #include file="menu.html" -->
is supposed to work, but I don't know where to put the menu file.
right now it is in the root directory, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything.

i must be implementing it incorrectly.

EDIT: my site host offers SSI so it should work if i can figure out how to get it going.

[ray326]

Rename your pages *.shtml and see if that helps.

[getret]

that got a
<!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->
working, but not my
<!-- #include file="menu.htm" -->

EDIT:
needed this instead.
<!--#include virtual="menu.htm" -->

it works now.

thanks everyone.