Referrencing HTML document mid page with ASP variable

[joehouse]

Hi gang, my first post, and I'm just coming back to webdesign after being away for five-six years [been doing construction... needed to get outside for a bit]. But I remembered some time ago that a friend told me of this miraculous thing called ASP that would do away with frames... FOREVER.

But here's my question. I want to have a navigation bar along the left side of most of my pages. With usig frames I would simple have dived the page in half veritically and would have had the left side referrencing navigation.html and the right side of the page would jump between whatever.html and whatever.html .
Is there a way to insert this same navigation bar in each page by using a variable? ie
< % Dim Navigation as string
navigation = "nav.html" % >
And then whenever I'd have to update my navigation I could do the changes in nav.html ? As opposed to every single page running a search/replace?

Thanks for the help!

Joe

[jeffro]

Just include the page with an ASP file include like this:

<!--#include file="nav.html"-->

[joehouse]

Originally Posted by jeffro

Just include the page with an ASP file include like this:

<!--#include file="nav.html"-->

Sweet! Thanks a million! And after doing a search on the command I've found that I need to do a TON more reading on SSI's

[jeffro]

Heh, glad it helped. Feel free to post your questions here if you have any.