Topic awaiting preservation: was wonderin...*involves JS, DHTML and SSI* (Page 1 of 1)

is there any way possible to click a link in one table, then have a .txt file load via SSI without making more shtml files? without frames? I know there are some tricks that can create text on page...but I was wonderin if you could do that...it'd help on server space. and make browsing easier.

SSI is only parsed on the server side (hence the name). Using DHTML to dynamically write a peice of SSI won't work, because only the client (the web browser) sees it, and the server doesn't.

Sorry =)

If your only working with rather small text files you could try to load them into JS var's at the start then write them into the table cell when called.

Don't know if that would work though.

hmm...

ok i don't know squat about ssi but you could do like asp and just have an array in SSI (if they exist) and then have it convert it to js..
i know how i would do it in ASP i am not sure of the capabilities of ssi but this would be my guess.

- can't decide? have another drink.

SSI is pretty limited. Writing the data to a variable or array at the beginning is your best bet. Or open it in a <div> that's invisible, then show it as needed.