My website has the same navigation menu throughout, instead to rewriting the HTML code for every page, can I link to a second HTML file (that contains the nav HTML code) lik
for an HTML solution -since you have no other tags in your question- there is HTML imports:
<link rel="import" href="nav.html">
But this new -working draft- and it doesn't have good browser support.
Resources:
W3schools has an include. They also have there own CSS as a side note. Put the callup in footer (wherever)
<script src="vendor/w3js.min.js"></script>
<script src="w3.includeHTML();"></script>
And then on page:
<header class="header navbar-fixed-top">
<nav id="inc_nav" w3-include-html="nav.html"></nav>
</header>
<section id="inc_header" w3-include-html="header.html"></section>
<div id="content" tabindex="-1"></div>
That is called HTML includes, and YES, it is possible
<div w3-include-HTML="content.html">My HTML include will go here.</div>
<script>
(function () {
myHTMLInclude();
function myHTMLInclude() {
var z, i, a, file, xhttp;
z = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
for (i = 0; i < z.length; i++) {
if (z[i].getAttribute("w3-include-html")) {
a = z[i].cloneNode(false);
file = z[i].getAttribute("w3-include-html");
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhttp.readyState == 4 && xhttp.status == 200) {
a.removeAttribute("w3-include-html");
a.innerHTML = xhttp.responseText;
z[i].parentNode.replaceChild(a, z[i]);
myHTMLInclude();
}
}
xhttp.open("GET", file, true);
xhttp.send();
return;
}
}
}
})();
</script>
NOTES
HTML doesn't have a simple include mechanism (except for frames like iframe, which have side effects).
A better solution would be to use Server-Side includes, which is the preferred way of adding common parts to your document, on the server, of course.
Simple way would be to put the header part in a separate html file.
Now load this file in html code using jQuery load
function like
$("#headerDiv").load("header.html")
Know that, this will require web server because load function sends a request to server.
Check out the code sample:
demo.html
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(function(){
$("#headerDiv").load("header.html");
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="headerDiv"></div>
<!-- Rest of the code -->
</body>
</html>
header.html
<div >
<a>something</a>
<a>something</a>
</div>