INSERTing text from files into answers and placeholders

Friday has a special INSERT tag that allows you to insert the contents of any text (or html) file into your template or answer files, wherever you like.

• Edit the template or answer you want to insert text into
• Add the insert tag where you want the contents of the file to appear:
  <!--INSERT:file-to-insert.ext:INSERT-->
• Save the template or question file
• When Friday encounters one of these special tags, it replaces the tag with the contents of the file the tag calls for. It does this before it processes most of its other placeholders, so you can include placeholders in the inserted file and Friday will process them too.

Friday does no processing to the file contents other than processing the placeholders (Friday's own placeholders and your user-defined placeholders).

If you want HTML or other special code in the file, you'll have to edit the file to add it.

This feature is especially useful for adding bits of commonly used HTML to your answers and templates or including text that must appear in several places. By using an inserted file, you only have to edit the text in the inserted file then re-generate HTML to have each instance of the text updated in your FAQ.

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