The lack of native support in HTML for including partials like nav menus, headers, footers, etc. makes it necessary to use static site generators, server-side programming, or JavaScript for client-side includes that slow down page rendering. For personal website operators using free hosts like NeoCities and NekoWeb, JS is usually the only option for reusing snippets.
I wrote about this in greater detail back in 2023 at https://starbreaker.org/grimoire/entries/html5-needs-partial-element/index.html
As noted, I get around this by using sed, m4, and hxincl in the shell scripts I use to build my website, but this might not be an optimal solution.
The lack of native support in HTML for including partials like nav menus, headers, footers, etc. makes it necessary to use static site generators, server-side programming, or JavaScript for client-side includes that slow down page rendering. For personal website operators using free hosts like NeoCities and NekoWeb, JS is usually the only option for reusing snippets.
I wrote about this in greater detail back in 2023 at https://starbreaker.org/grimoire/entries/html5-needs-partial-element/index.html
As noted, I get around this by using sed, m4, and hxincl in the shell scripts I use to build my website, but this might not be an optimal solution.