[thelist] newbie to includes

[John Hicks]

Bird wrote:
> I have added an include file as my footer.
> It displays ok apart from its not showing the link.
> 
> The include file is a .txt file 
> 
> It contains the following:
> 
> © qscthailand.com 2006 site design <a
> href="http://www.koolfish.com">Koolfish Web Design</a> 
> 
> In the .shtml pages it is referenced as:
> 
> <!--#include virtual="copy.txt" -->
> 
> It displays the text fine but not the link.

Bring the page up in a browser and look at the source. Check to see what 
part of the <a> tag is there.

(I doubt if the problem has anything to do with the file extension of 
the included file. The include should be all or nothing. If it includes 
the text properly, the link ought to be there too.)

--J