Equivalent of include() in HTML

Question

I was wondering wether there is a way to include some html content inside another html using only html?

A replacement to PHP's

<?php include("file.php"); ?>

Is this possible?

EDIT:

This has brought up some confusion, what I needed was "almost an html tag" that had the functionality of including a html document in another.

Answer 1

There's no such thing. You'd have to use a server-side scripting language or JavaScript to do something like this.

Answer 2

Yes there is but you need to enable it in your config or .htaccess:

Options +Includes
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

Of course with that youd need to rename any file doing the including to .shtml... or you could jsut use:

Options +Includes
AddType text/html .html
AddHandler server-parsed .html

the syntax itself is similar to comment:

<!--#include virtual="/footer.html" -->

Answer 3

the only thing would be an iframe which is pure html. but you also can use javascript to get the page via ajax and include it into your dom hirarchy

Answer 4

It cannot be done purely by HTML. (There are iframes, however, but I don't think that qualifies in this case.)

It can be done using JavaScript. You get the other file via Ajax, and place its contents inside an HTML element on the current page.

Answer 5

If you're using Apache, you can try Server Side Includes.

Answer 6

HTML does not have a feature to include additional content natively. However most web servers do have server-side include statements:
SSI in Apache
SSI in IIS