Stylesheets for content?

Question

Forgive my ignorance since this seems like its something I should know by now.

I know I could make a stylesheet that will allow me to make changes in my CSS throughout several pages that use the CSS. I also know that you can make an external javascript file that could contain functions you want to reuse. But lets say I had pure HTML content (lets pretend a bunch of buttons or links) that I wanted replicated on several pages. Is there anything similar to a stylesheet in that regard? This would allow you to update the buttons/links all at once.

Answer 1

Try server-side includes.

The most frequent use of SSI is to include the contents of one or more files into a web page on a web server. For example, a web page containing a daily quote could include the quote by placing the following code into the file of the web page:

You could also use PHP, if your host allows it. Just change the name of the page from .html to .php and reference the header:

<?php include "header.php" ?>

Both of these require you to change the file's extension, so you might also want to use mod_rewrite to let users still access it via the .html name. Again, if your host supports it.