CSS/XHTML and included files??!!

[wakeup]

mmm probably a stupid Q but im confusing myself


http://www.twenty-eleven.com.fidowebsite/index.html
this is my first non tables standards compliant site and seems to be going OK!?

but, i want to have the nav in a seperate file so can be updated sitewide - have previously used php includes but cant do that here or it wont be valid markup, right??!!

been learning my CSS by mistakes for a few hrs now so forgive me if im just not seeing a simple solution here!!!

cheers all

[ditt0]

so use shtml include

[wakeup]

just tried this - doesnt seem to work?

copied and pasted the html for the nav into a html file called navigation.html then replased it into the index file with <!--#include file="navigation.html" --> and made the index extension to .shtml

any ideas??

cheers

[bwh2]

but, i want to have the nav in a seperate file so can be updated sitewide - have previously used php includes but cant do that here or it wont be valid markup, right??!!
php includes should have no effect on your final xhtml validation if you do it correctly. what kind of differences/problems are you seeing?

[wakeup]

so i can have php includes on php page with the XHTML doctype declaired??

[CriTiCeRz]

Yes you can.

[bwh2]

so i can have php includes on php page with the XHTML doctype declaired??
you should always declare a doctype.

the reason i said php includes should have no effect on your validation is because browsers don't parse the php. browsers parse the html, which is produced by the server running php. from the browser's perspective, php doesn't even exist.

[wakeup]

yes, was thinking that......makes sense. cheers