About shared borders

A shared border is a region on a web page that is common to one or more pages in a web site. A shared border may be a region at the top or bottom of the page (similar to a page header or footer), at the left, or at the right. Use shared borders to place the same content on multiple pages in one step, rather than editing each page.

For example, to quickly place a logo at the top of each page in your web site, design your pages so that they all have the same top border, then add the graphic to that top border.

Shared borders

Ways to use shared borders

Shared borders are a quick and easy way to give your pages a consistent look. After you set a shared border, you can add content to it. At any point, you can change or remove the content in a shared border. Following are examples of ways to use shared borders:

Note   If you add page banners and link bars in a shared border, the pages must be added to Navigation view in order to be displayed correctly.

Setting shared borders for pages and web sites

When you use shared borders, you only have to modify content in one place to update all pages. For example, to change the copyright notice on each page of a 30-page web site, you can update it only on one page if the notice is inside a shared border.

You can also set the shared borders so that every page in the web site uses them by default, or you can set shared borders for individual pages. For example, the default setting for a web site might be to share top and left borders; each new page would then have these shared borders. However, you could turn off the shared border on specific pages, as shown in the following illustration:

1 Default setting that uses shared top and left borders

2 Various pages in the web site that may or may not use the default setting