title: Do PHP Includes Require HTML & Body Tags?
body: <p><strong>Do PHP Includes Require HTML &amp; Body Tags Around Them?</strong> </p>
  
  <p>Or is this unnecessary since the server is placing the include inside of a file that already has these tags?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Example:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php include("includes/menu.php"); ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>WITHOUT:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;nav id="menu"&gt;...&lt;/nav&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>or WITH:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
      &lt;body&gt;
          &lt;nav id="menu"&gt;...&lt;/nav&gt;
      &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>