not able to include one html file in another

Question

a.html

ABC

b.html

    <!--#include FILE="a.html" --> 

XYZ

access b.html: file:///home/kurz/Desktop/b.html

it only shows XYZ

is this not the way to include files in html?

Answer 1

What you're attempting is called a Server-Side Include (SSI). As such, it requires the pages be running on a webserver, rather than a local file.

When you're requesting the page from a server, the server sees the <!--#include FILE="a.html" --> preprocessor and performs the SSI.

When you're referencing it directly from your filesystem, such as file:///home/kurz/Desktop/b.html, all your browser is doing is loading the raw html and interpreting that.

Answer 2

If it's apache try

<!--#include virtual="insertthisfile.html" -->

From here:

include virtual and include file do almost the same thing. The difference is that include virtual takes a URL-style path, which is what you probably expect. include virtual can also execute CGI programs, if your web server supports that, and include their output. include file takes a file-system path, and cannot execute CGI programs. Both also accept relative paths, so for a simple case like the above they work the same. If you don't understand the difference between web paths and file system paths, use include virtual.

Answer 3

The one you are doing is SSI -> Server Side Includes which requires Apache or IIS to work.

You need to install Apache (for windows / unix) or IIS (for windows) for this to work. Also, you can test this on remote webservers.

Answer 4

Yes, servers are required for server side includes

If its just plain HTML, use iframes... instead of a #include, use :

<iframe src="a.html"></iframe>

If your site is to be XHTML compliant (probably not).. you would need to make further changes