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INSERT / INCLUDE Text file content inside HTML page.

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Sounds like you should take a look at the Server Side Includes (SSI) Tutorial which allow you to insert text/html files in your page.

EDIT I tested the following files with the Visual Studio Casini(built in) web server to demonstrate how server side includes work:

default.aspx(Note the  line)

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="ServerSideInclude._Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Server Side Include</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div style="border:solid 1 px blue;">
       This is the main page...
       <!--#include virtual="FileToInclude.txt" -->
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

FileToInclude.txt

<div style="border:solid 1px green;margin:10px;">
    This text is from an included file...
</div>

default.aspx.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

namespace ServerSideInclude
{
    public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }
    }
}

All these files are in the web site root directory. You will need to all paths to the file to include if they are in different directories(as noted in the tutorial linked to above)

NOTE: This works with .aspx files as shown here. Other file extensions with the Casini web server may not work. If you were using IIS you could configure file extensions to be processed through ssi.dll. Since Casini isn't configurable(as far as I know) not all file extensions may be processed for server side includes.

DaveB 2010-08-28 05:28:24

I've tried that  thing on a HTML page in my Visual Studio 2005 project. but, when I actually preview that HTML file. with this script. Its not working, its not showing text file content in it.

idleMind 2010-08-28 06:23:28

@idleMind - See my sample code added.

DaveB 2010-08-28 18:04:06

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