Referencing a text/html file within another HTML file - WITHOUT Frames (e.g. Span, Div)

[Go USA! Go Israel!]

I was wondering if the following was possible:

Instead of using a frameset which references other individual HTML files,
have the <SPAN> tag reference another HTML file, which is placed within
that portion of the screen?

I know how frames work. I hate frames.

I like the SPAN tag, and I would like to be able to change the text
within that portion of the page.

I would also like to avoid having to do this in PHP, Perl or any
other scripting language.

Is this possible?

[Martin Honnen]

Go USA! Go Israel! wrote:

I was wondering if the following was possible:

Instead of using a frameset which references other individual HTML files,
have the <SPAN> tag reference another HTML file, which is placed within
that portion of the screen?

I know how frames work. I hate frames.

I like the SPAN tag, and I would like to be able to change the text
within that portion of the page.
Well, check your favorite HTML reference, the <span> element doesn't
have a src attribute, the <iframe> tag however has one. There is also
the <object> tag to insert content from another URL into the page.
I would also like to avoid having to do this in PHP, Perl or any
other scripting language.

You could use server side includes (SSI) to include a snippet of HTML
from one file into a <span> tag but of course you need SSI support on
the server.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Matthias Gutfeldt]

Go USA! Go Israel! wrote:

I was wondering if the following was possible:

Instead of using a frameset which references other individual HTML files,
have the <SPAN> tag reference another HTML file, which is placed within
that portion of the screen?

I know how frames work. I hate frames.

I like the SPAN tag, and I would like to be able to change the text
within that portion of the page.

I would also like to avoid having to do this in PHP, Perl or any
other scripting language.

Is this possible?

No. Check the relevant HTML reference for SPAN. Neither can you
'reference' content with SPAN, nor can you put 'another HTML file' in
SPAN if you want the document to validate.

You could use IFRAMES or OBJECT or some javascript trickery or even the
CSS 'content' property, but all those solutions aren't better than
frames and will fail in many, many browsers.
Matthias

[Long]

"Martin Honnen" <ma*******@yahoo.de> wrote in message news:3f********@olaf.komtel.net...
:
: Go USA! Go Israel! wrote:
:
: > I was wondering if the following was possible:
: >
: > Instead of using a frameset which references other individual HTML files,
: > have the <SPAN> tag reference another HTML file, which is placed within
: > that portion of the screen?
: >
: > I know how frames work. I hate frames.
: >
: > I like the SPAN tag, and I would like to be able to change the text
: > within that portion of the page.
:
: Well, check your favorite HTML reference, the <span> element doesn't
: have a src attribute, the <iframe> tag however has one. There is also
: the <object> tag to insert content from another URL into the page.
:
: > I would also like to avoid having to do this in PHP, Perl or any
: > other scripting language.
:
: You could use server side includes (SSI) to include a snippet of HTML
: from one file into a <span> tag but of course you need SSI support on
: the server.
:
You could also use WebCharm 'html' tag to include the BODY section
of an HTML file. For example, <SPAN><!--@html somefile.htm@--></SPAN>.
But of course you will also need WebCharm support on the web server.

--
Long On
Edgesoft Consulting Inc.
www.edgesoft.ca/go/index.html
long at edgesoft dot ca

[Steve Pugh]

"Long" <lo***********@rogers.com> wrote:

You could also use WebCharm 'html' tag to include the BODY section
of an HTML file. For example, <SPAN><!--@html somefile.htm@--></SPAN>.
But of course you will also need WebCharm support on the web server.

Have you actually managed to sell WC to any web hosts yet?

Steve

--
"My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you,
I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." - The Doctor

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net> <http://steve.pugh.net/>

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Quoth the raven named Long:

You could also use WebCharm 'html' tag to include the BODY section
of an HTML file. For example, <SPAN><!--@html somefile.htm@--></SPAN>.
But of course you will also need WebCharm support on the web server.

Please do not post false hopes and proprietary solutions. Thank you.

To the OP: the above <SPAN> will only work on Long's server.

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-bts
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[Eric Bohlman]

ma**********@hotmail.com (Go USA! Go Israel!) wrote in
news:10**************************@posting.google.c om:

I was wondering if the following was possible:

Instead of using a frameset which references other individual HTML
files, have the <SPAN> tag reference another HTML file, which is
placed within that portion of the screen?

I know how frames work. I hate frames.

I like the SPAN tag, and I would like to be able to change the text
within that portion of the page.

I would also like to avoid having to do this in PHP, Perl or any
other scripting language.

Is this possible?

How frequently does the inserted content change? If it's relatively
infrequent (a few times a week or even a day) the easiest thing to do would
be to preprocess the files before making them available on the server. If
the changes are relatively frequent (i.e. the included content is quite
dynamic) then your only hope is some sort of server-side process.

[Stan Brown]

In article <ki********************************@4ax.com> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net>
wrote:

"Long" <lo***********@rogers.com> wrote:

You could also use WebCharm 'html' tag to include the BODY section
of an HTML file. For example, <SPAN><!--@html somefile.htm@--></SPAN>.
But of course you will also need WebCharm support on the web server.

Have you actually managed to sell WC to any web hosts yet?

If not, it's not for lack of spam^H^H^H^Htrying. :-)

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