How to Merge ASP With HTML

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Merging ASP and HTML enables you to create a dynamic website with a wealth of information. Below is an illustration of how to create an ASP page for classic ASP and ASP.NET 2.0 that show the login credentials of a user.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Step1

Write the programming language you will use for the ASP code. Your options are VBScript, JavaScript and VB or C# for ASP.NET.

Classic ASP
<%@Language="VBSCript,"

ASP.NET
<%@Page Language="VB," %>

Step2

Name the HTML Header and part of BODY section
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Login Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>

Step3

Begin the BODY section

<BODY BGCOLOR="White" TOPMARGIN="10" LEFTMARGIN="10">


Login Page 

<HR SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000">

Step4

Put ASP code within the HTML text


You logged in as user: <%= Request. ServerVariables ("LOGON_USER") %>



You were authenticated using: <%= Request.ServerVariables("AUTH_TYPE")%> authentication.

Step5

Insert the closing Tags for BODY and HTML
</BODY>
</HTML>

Step6

Save the file. Use .asp for classic ASP file and .aspx for ASP.NET file.
e.g UserCredential.asp or UserCredential.aspx

Tips & Warnings

<% %> is a pair of tags. They are used to specify a code section as an ASP code.
From classic ASP to ASP.NET 2.0, there are several versions of ASP and they all require similar steps when merging ASP code and HTML text.