Linking page content within a div or table cell

[Artifice]

I run a Sidebar on my website. What I would like to do is the following:

Because the Sidebar changes regularly and appears on multiple pages, I don't want to have to manually change the Sidebar every time there is a change.

Is it possible to have the html code for the Sidebar content on a separate page that I name sidebar.html and then I call that html code to appear in a designated table cell or div on all of my main content pages?

I am guessing this is possible but am not sure of the best way to handle this. My pages at the moment are all .html. Is there a way to do this without having to change every page to .php? Ideally I would like to keep this as simple as possible because while I have a working knowledge of coding it is not my greatest skill.

Any help would be appreciated.

Mark

 

[vacunita]

It is doable in many different way however plain HTML is not one of them. Ways to do it Include not only PHP, but also ASP, SSI's and various other techniques.

Obviously we would need to know what is available to you to recommend a possible course.

If you don't want to change your pages, well change their extension actually, to anything at all SSI's may be the best option but you need to make sure the server where your pages are hosted supports this.

Using PHP or ASP is just a matter of changing the page extension to php or asp, and adding in the relevant code. The rest of your html does not need to be changed. Additionally the relevant code could be as simple as:

include("sidebar.html");
at least in PHP.

Can you tell us what your web host supports so we can point you in the right direction?

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