SSI alternative

[Ali Babba]

hi all,

my ISP doesnt support SSI and therefor i try to javascript to get the
same think done. the function i am interested in is ssi include virtual
and after some searching i found many times the same anser; use:

<!--
document.write( " your HTML here ");
// -->

now the problem is that it only works when all HTML is put in 1 line !
and this line cannot be longer than about 255 characters.

i am working on a winXP machine and have tried to use a unix-like-editor
(breakline thing) but still the same thing.

question: do i do something wrong or how to get it working ??

many thanks for helpful replies,

martin

[McKirahan]

Re: SSI alternative

"Ali Babba" <AliBabba@40Ban dits.com> wrote in message
news:cv57f3$91f $1@news.hispeed .ch...[color=blue]
> hi all,
>
> my ISP doesnt support SSI and therefor i try to javascript to get the
> same think done. the function i am interested in is ssi include virtual
> and after some searching i found many times the same anser; use:
>
> <!--
> document.write( " your HTML here ");
> // -->
>
> now the problem is that it only works when all HTML is put in 1 line !
> and this line cannot be longer than about 255 characters.
>
> i am working on a winXP machine and have tried to use a unix-like-editor
> (breakline thing) but still the same thing.
>
> question: do i do something wrong or how to get it working ??
>
> many thanks for helpful replies,
>
> martin[/color]

First omit "<!--" and "-->" as they're obsolete then change

document.write( " your HTML here ");

to:

document.write( " your");
document.write( "<br>HTML") ;
document.write( "<br>here ");

or:

var html = [
"your",
"HTML",
"here"];
document.write( html.join("<br> "));

[David Dorward]

Re: SSI alternative

Ali Babba wrote:
[color=blue]
> my ISP doesnt support SSI and therefor i try to javascript to get the
> same think done.[/color]

Stop! Backpedel!

Including content using JavaScript is usually not a good idea. It will be
invisible for the not-insignificant proportion of the world which does not
have JS available and enabled (including GoogleBot).

You can achieve the effects of SSIs using an HTML preprocessor as described
at http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Incl...ile_in_another

--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me .uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
Home is where the ~/.bashrc is

[Ali Babba]

Re: SSI alternative

McKirahan wrote:
[color=blue]
> "Ali Babba" <AliBabba@40Ban dits.com> wrote in message
> news:cv57f3$91f $1@news.hispeed .ch...
>[color=green]
>>hi all,
>>
>>my ISP doesnt support SSI and therefor i try to javascript to get the
>>same think done. the function i am interested in is ssi include virtual
>>and after some searching i found many times the same anser; use:
>>
>><!--
>>document.writ e(" your HTML here ");
>>// -->
>>
>>now the problem is that it only works when all HTML is put in 1 line !
>>and this line cannot be longer than about 255 characters.
>>
>>i am working on a winXP machine and have tried to use a unix-like-editor
>>(breakline thing) but still the same thing.
>>
>>question: do i do something wrong or how to get it working ??
>>
>>many thanks for helpful replies,
>>
>>martin[/color]
>
>
> First omit "<!--" and "-->" as they're obsolete then change
>
> document.write( " your HTML here ");
>
> to:
>
> document.write( " your");
> document.write( "<br>HTML") ;
> document.write( "<br>here ");
>
> or:
>
> var html = [
> "your",
> "HTML",
> "here"];
> document.write( html.join("<br> "));
>
>[/color]

thanks alot !! of course it works.
also thanks to david, although i stick with this solution.

[Jim Ley]

Re: SSI alternative

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:08:47 +0100, Ali Babba <AliBabba@40Ban dits.com>
wrote:
[color=blue]
>now the problem is that it only works when all HTML is put in 1 line !
>and this line cannot be longer than about 255 characters.[/color]

I've never known any browsers with a 255 character limit, could you
provide more details of where you worked out the limit?

Jim.

[Ali Babba]

Re: SSI alternative

Jim Ley wrote:[color=blue]
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:08:47 +0100, Ali Babba <AliBabba@40Ban dits.com>
> wrote:
>
>[color=green]
>>now the problem is that it only works when all HTML is put in 1 line !
>>and this line cannot be longer than about 255 characters.[/color]
>
>
> I've never known any browsers with a 255 character limit, could you
> provide more details of where you worked out the limit?
>
> Jim.[/color]

255 was a guess, and not a good one.

i was using windows notepad, and it has apparently somewhere a limit on
the number of characters in 1 line.

just checked with a better editor and i didnt get any weird behaviour
until i arrived around 40k charcters in 1 line.