[bagelpirate]

I have my main page, called layout.html. I want a drop down menu that I have completely coded on ddm.html to appear in layout.html.

I know I can do this with PHP, but i'd rather develop it offline, CSS should be able to do this, I just dont know the code.

I do know the code to fetch pages with CSS Vars, but that hasnt worked for a html page with content.

[neka]

I've never seen something like that done before with CSS, link me to an example if you can.
Why don't you just include the code from ddm.html into layout.html?

[fivel]

yeah.. me too.. "code to fetch pages with CSS Vars"?

[emil]

CSS should be able to do this

Best of luck.

[Bill Posters]

I know I can do this with PHP, but i'd rather develop it offline

Have you considered installing PHP locally on your machine?

[adam c]

I don't see a way to do this with CSS. If it can be done it must be some weird hack because CSS isn't designed to do that.
I would take the above advice and install PHP locally and use that.

[djeglin]

More to the point - Why have you used a whole separate page to code your navigation menu? If its that complicated, you're doing something wrong. Code?

[Bill Posters]

Originally Posted by djeglin

More to the point - Why have you used a whole separate page to code your navigation menu? If its that complicated, you're doing something wrong. Code?

Not necessarily. By modularising those components which appear on every page, and then bringing them in as 'included' files, you're actually improving a site's overall maintainability.
To make site-wide changes to the menu, you only need to change one file.

Same principle as external css and js.

[herkalees]

CSS is not a scripting language. It is meant to style html elements, and that's about it. If you want to include the content of File A inside File B, you need a server-side scripting language.

End of story.

[freelancr]

I take it you are using windows, if you don't want to install Apache & PHP you could use SSI Includes on IIS. Otherwise your only option is frames.

[djeglin]

Originally Posted by Bill Posters

Not necessarily. By modularising those components which appear on every page, and then bringing them in as 'included' files, you're actually improving a site's overall maintainability.
To make site-wide changes to the menu, you only need to change one file.

Same principle as external css and js.

I can see your point here... but if they arent managing the whole site with php, then i cant imagine that its really likely to be complicated enough, or be changed frequently enough, to warrant this? I was more making the point that a drop down menu should be very simple, and that for the fuctionality (discounting updating) it shouldn't be difficult to build it in to the page.