This is the best method.

But,

The main page MUST be named a ASP page for the SSI to work. rename the main page something like MyPage.asp instead of MyPage.html.


>If your web server is configured to support them you can use server side includes (SSI).
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<!--#include file="included.html" -->

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>>Lately I have been doing mostly ASP.NET pages where for a common header and a footer I use web user controls.
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>>If I want to create simple static .html pages but have a common header and a footer on all of them, how do you do it?
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>>Thank you in advance.