showing only html content from #included file

DanInMa · 11-19-2012, 06:13 PM

ok so I want to deploy a new default.asp to all of my web site's sub pages ( department pages)

I dont want admins to edit default.asp directly

in each folder Im goign to include sidebar.asp and mycontent.asp

I wantsidebar.asp and mycontent.asp to be full fledged documents including doctypes and css references.

My question , is it possible, in this scenario, to use includes to display the html content only of the included files? - meaning how can i strip everything but the contents of the <body> element when including sidebar.asp and mycontent.asp?

- I think you can do this in php, I jsu have no idea what this method is called so google didnt help much

DanInMa · 11-19-2012, 06:49 PM

nevermind I found it, but as it turns out this isnt a good way to go for this purpose anyhow.

Old Pedant · 11-19-2012, 08:08 PM

So what did you go with?

I would do it by breaking up the files.

So, for example, I might have:
sidebar-header.asp
sidebar-body.asp
sidebar-footer.asp

And then sidebar.asp simply #include's those 3 files. Whereas a page that needs only the body of the sidebar #include's sidebar-body.asp.

And so on.