noob common menu question

ArchAnGeL · 9 Nov 2011 at 17:33

I am doing a very basic html/css site on the companies intranet to link documents etc.

The site is held on a network share which I am told is running IIS.

I have multimple pages and want to use a common menu. Rather than repeat the menu code in each page, I want to insert it.

Unfortunately i am getting no response from .asp scripts so I am assuming it is not running. (php also does not work)

What are my options other than iframes? I cannot install any software onto the server.

Cheers,

Staffy · 10 Nov 2011 at 02:02

The only way I can think of would be to use SSI read about it here for IIS: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms525185(v=vs.90).aspx

Other option would be speak to your IT dept and ask them to setup asp or php for you?

ArchAnGeL · 10 Nov 2011 at 08:03

Cheers. Unfortunately not been able to get it to work via #include. I've tired a few examples from the web so perhaps something isn't running server side.

rz30 · 10 Nov 2011 at 09:49

You could use AJAX and the DOM to write it.

Staffy · 10 Nov 2011 at 10:17

Unless you can get the IT dept to sort out some scripting then your only other option is to use javascript/ajax. But you need to be able to guarantee that they have javascript enabled in the users browsers otherwise they won't see the menus.

Do you have access to the server and user rights to manage it?

Other option is to create the pages using a template on your desktop aka Dreamweaver.

ArchAnGeL · 10 Nov 2011 at 10:35

Staffy said:
Do you have access to the server and user rights to manage it?

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Sadly no.

It's not to bad to include the menu in each page as there's only a small number. I just wanted to do it a bit neater. As you say, maybe not too safe to do with JS as the menu will be missing if JS is switched off in the browser (there isn't a common policy on this)