If I recall correctly, a plain html file will not do any includes, as that requires some smarts. I believe shtml will respond to #include. If this is a php page, use <?php include 'footer.php';?> Mik Mik Muller, president Montague WebWorks 239-R Main Street, Greenfield, MA 413-320-5336 http://MontagueWebWorks.com Powered by ROCKETFUSION On 7/27/2021 3:02 PM, Shel Horowitz via Hidden-discuss wrote: > A follow-up question to my post yesterday, now that I got the landing > page working properly. I am revising some of the obsolete inner pages, > such as Shel's Other Books and Sites (frugalfun.com) > <https://frugalfun.com/othersites.html>, and I notice these files are > not pulling most of the page design elements, other than the green > sidebar--but not the text that goes into the sidebar. > > At the end of the <head> section, it calls the CSS: > > <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"> > <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> > <meta name="robots" content="all"> > <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) 1997-2021 by Shel > Horowitz. All Rights Reserved."> > > > <link REL="StyleSheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="ffstyle.css"> > > <script SRC="menu.js"></script> > > <script language="JavaScript"> > > function goThere() { > > newUrl = > document.ChooseLink.LinkList.options[document.ChooseLink.LinkList.selectedIndex].value > > window.location = newUrl > > } > > </script> > > </head> > <body> > > > And then at the bottom, it calls the specific elements--but the file > doesn't display them: > > </p> > <!-- -------------------------------------- --> > <!--#include file="menu.shtml" --> > </td> > <td width="120" length="100%" valign=top bgcolor="#60a040" > cellpadding="5"> > <!--#include file="sidebar.txt" --> > </td> > </tr> > <tr> > <td colspan="100%"> > <!--#include file="footer.txt" --> > </td> > </tr> > </table> > </body> > </html> > -- > What am I doing wrong? > > Many thanks, > > Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur" > ________________________________________________ > Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, > poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change > * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified > * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame > * Certified speaker: International Platform Association > http://goingbeyondsustainability.com > <http://goingbeyondsustainability.com> > mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com > <mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com> 413-586-2388 > Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. > Latest: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World > (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson) > > Watch my TEDx Talk, > "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World" > http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809 > <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809> > (move your mouse to "event videos") > _________________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20210727/ca799418/attachment.html>