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On Jan 10, 2015, at 8:37 PM, Jason Bengtson wrote: > Do you have access to the server-side? Server side scripting languages (and > the frameworks and CMSes built with them) have provisions for just this > sort of thing. Include statements in PHP and cfinclude tags in coldfusion, > for example. Every Content Management System I've used has had a provision > to create reusable content that can be added to multiple pages as blocks or > via shortcodes. If you can use server-side script I recommend it; that's > really the cleaner way to do this sort of thing. Another option you could > use that avoids something like iframes is to create a javascript file that > dynamically creates the navbar dynamically in your pages. Just include the > javascript file in any page you want the toolbar to appear in. That method > adds some overhead to your pages, but it's perfectly workable if > server-side script is out of reach. The javascript trick works pretty well when you have people mirroring your site via wget (as they won't run the js, and thus won't try to retrieve all of the images that are used to make the page pretty every time they run their mirror job. You can see it in action at: http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/data/ins_data/ The drawback is that some browsers have a bit of a flash when they first hit the page. It might be possible to mitigate the problem by having the HTML set the background to whatever color the background will be changed to, but I don't quite the flexibility to do that in my case, due to how the page is being generated. -Joe ps. It's been years since I've done ColdFusion, but I remember there being a file that you could set, that would automatically getting inserted into every page in that directory, or in sub-directories. I want to say it was often used for authentication and such, but it might be possible to use for this. If nothing else, you could load header into a variable, and have the pages just print the variable in the right location.