How To Make Reuseable HTML Navigation Menus?

Question

I\'m sure this topic comes up all the time,
But I can\'t seem to fine a concise answer.

I\'ve got a vertical menu bar that I want to reuse in webpages (>20)

Answer 1

In order to do this, you'll have to use some server side technology. For instance you could...

• include them in php

• put them in the master page in .net

• put this in a partial or a layout page in rails

Some reading:

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wtxbf3hh.aspx

Another solution would be to create all this using Javascript, but please don't do it like that :)

html:

hack.js:

function createMenu(){
  $("#mymenu").html("all the html of your menu");
}