• With the help of the #include directive, you can insert the content of one ASP file into another ASP file before the server executes it

• To create functions, headers, footers, or elements that will be reused on multiple pages,the #include directive is used.

If you look into the browser to see the source code, it will look something like this:

Place the #include directive inside comment tags to include a file in an ASP page,:

To indicate a path beginning with a virtual directory ,use the virtual keyword .

The following line would insert the contents of "header.inc" if a file named "header.inc" resides in a virtual directory named /html :

To indicate a relative path ,file keyword is used. A relative path begins with the directory that contains the including file.

The following line would insert the contents of "header.inc" if a file named "header.inc" resides in a virtual directory named /html,

Note that the path to the included file (headers\header.inc) is relative to the including file. If the file containing this #include statement is not in the html directory, the statement will not work.

To include a file from a higher-level directory,you can also use the file keyword with the syntax (..\)

In the sections above we have used the file extension ".inc" for included files. Notice that if a user tries to browse an INC file directly, its content will be displayed. If your included file contains confidential information or information you do not want any users to see, it is better to use an ASP extension. The source code in an ASP file will not be visible after the interpretation. An included file can also include other files, and one ASP file can include the same file more than once.

Important: Included files are processed and inserted before the scripts are executed.

The following script will not work because before it assigns a value to the variable ,ASP executes the #include directive:

In an INC file,you cannot open or close a script delimiter . This script will not work: