[Javascript] Includes and relative paths? -- followup

[Rees, Mark (TWIi London)]

Hello

Are you talking about the #include directive? if so, you can either write 

#include virtual="/ path from web root"
e.g.
#include virtual="/includes/homepage/menu.htm"

or miss off the first slash and you have relative paths i.e. the statement
below only works if you are in the root.

#include virtual="includes/homepage/menu.htm"

You can do all this kind of business as well if you must: 
#include virtual="../includes/homepage/menu.htm"

#include file only refers to files located in the same directory as the page
the include directive is on, e.g.

#include file="menu.htm"

Do yourself a favour and do it like #include
virtual="/includes/homepage/menu.htm" - this will save you the trouble of
working out the path if you ever need to call the include from another page.

I hope this helps

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: databarn [mailto:databarn at airmail.net]
Sent: 03 July 2001 06:18
To: javascript at LaTech.edu
Subject: Re: [Javascript] Includes and relative paths? -- followup


OK,

I've confirmed (I think) that path is not relative to the web root.  Now I
need to find out if it has a codified path property at all.  <Gee whiz,
batman!  I don' wanna be a coder.>

Make a good day . . .
			 . . . barn
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done thoroughly.
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_______________________________________
From:	databarn [databarn at airmail.net]
To:	javascript at LaTech.edu
Subject:	[Javascript] Includes and relative paths?
Time:	7/2/2001 at 11:56PM

Folk,

Anybody know where I can find some documentation on the way
JavaScript/JScript treats path information?

I _think_ that it uses path relative to the root web, but I can't find
anything that says yea or nay.

I'm using include files to create a menu bar on a number of pages in a
number of different directories on the server.  Everything seems to work,
but I can't find confirmation that what's being done is being done right.
Been bitten before by "it works" and empirical methodology, so I'd kinda
like to get some documentation before pointing a finger at a browser type.
(And I don't seem to be smart enough to create a search list that's small
enough to read - everything keeps coming up with multi-thousand hits
<sigh!>.)

Make a good day . . .
			 . . . barn
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If your not living life on the edge, your wasting space.
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