Hello Andrew
Perhaps you are searching for something like this (although the solutions offered
above seem to be workable). I have an include file for each site called nav_inc.asp.
There are a couple of subs in there that look like this
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<%Sub WriteHeader()%>
<!--begin header-->
<h1>Some html for the header</h1>
...as much html as you care to include...
<!--end header-->
<%End Sub%>
<%Sub WriteFooter()%>
<!--begin footer-->
<h1>Some html for the footer</h1>
...etc
<!--end footer-->
<%End Sub%>
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Then in somepage.asp, I include nav_inc.asp at the top of the page and call functions
when I need them
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<%WriteHeader()%>
Enter your basic information here to create an account.<p>
Name: <input type="text" name="name" length="15"><p>
More content unique to that page.....
<%
'or if already within some scripting code, just call it without the asp delimiters
WriteFooter()
'some other server processing could be here...
%>
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If I understand your question, you just want to write *naked html* without wrapping
it
in 25 Response.Writes. This solution gets all of your common html blocks in one file.
I've also done it by putting the footer or header in it's own individual .asp file,
and then when you would like to write the footer or header, just include the file at
the desired spot in your code. You don't need to wrap the html in subroutine calls
and there does not have to be any asp delimiters in the include files, even though
they have .asp extensions.
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HTH,
Stephen
"Andrew" <akoper@web4000.com> wrote in message
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> I really appreciate everyone who is responding to my question. I have
> an important point to clarify/reiterate. When I make web apps in PHP> Enter your[/color]
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> Name: <input type="text" name="name" length="15"><p>
> More content unique to that page.....[/color]
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> or Perl, my pages look like this:
>
> <?
> include 'utils.inc';
> $page = "Create Account";
> printHeader($page);
> ?>
>
>
> <?
> printFooter();
> ?>
>
> Isn't this brilliant?! Or is it crazy?
>[/color]
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> I don't just insert vars. This way, there isn't common HTML
> duplicated across the 500 pages of the site I just inherited and am
> upgrading. I am going by the programming paradigm of "if you use the
> same thing over and over, just write it once and refer to it, don't
> write it over and over." This way, if we decide to add another
> hyperlink in the menu in the header, it is a 10 minute job, not a 15
> hour job. The function printHeader is virtually all HTML, almost like
> an include file. It ought to look virtually like an include file,
> just all HTML like Perl's "print HERE" function. You ought to be able
> to do this in ASP. How?
>
> :)
> -AK[/color]
printing large blocks of HTML in ASP 
