Re: [webmin-devel] Web links in help files

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 21:56, John Horne wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 21:39, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> >
> > Using file:// links like that is probably not a good idea, as they are 
> > interpreted by the web browser to refer to files on the *client* 
> > system.
> >
> Yes, silly me. That's what comes from testing on the same box!
> 
> >
> > Help files can contain links to each other though, with HTML like :
> > <a href=pagename>blah</a> which would link to help/pagename.html
> > 
> Yes that is closer. The problem is these are text files, so the above
> gives a 'missing <header>' error message. Does html have a facility to
> 'include' files? I'll see if I can find out more.

Normal HTML doesn't, but webmin help files do :-)
You can use pseudo-HTML like :
<include pagename>
to have help/pagename.html inserted at that point.

I should really document this in the help section of the module
developer's documentation!

 - Jamie