File Include

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Introduction

What if you want to include a web page within another web page but don't have SSI enabled on your server or hate messing with iframes? HTML has the under used <object> tag which can be used for this purpose.

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Object tag:

The following object tag can be used to include a web page into this web page:

<object type="text/x-scriptlet" width="500" height="200" data="http://www.google.com">   </object>

An example of this can be seen below (with border for presentation).

Screen shot for non-IE users.

This method has obvious limitations, the main one being that it is not really suitable for including whole pages but more useful to include small sections of a page.