Lift supports surrounding a given section of a page with a template from another file. This allows you to have master page templates or even section templates that are accessed by many different pages.
<lift:surround with="default" at="content"> This is a simple page surrounded by the default template. </lift:surround>
Using the <lift:surround> tag, you can surround the body with the contents of another template. The "with" attribute designates the name of the template. By convension, templates are stored in the /templates-hidden directory. Lift will not serve direct HTTP request from any directory that contains "-hidden". The "at" attribute specifies where the content should be placed in the loaded template. Lift will look for a <lift:bind name="..."/> tag in the target template and insert the body of the surround tag at the bind point.
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:lift='http://liftweb.net'> <head> <title>Lift Web Framework: <lift:Menu.title /></title> <lift:CSS.blueprint /> <lift:CSS.fancyType /> <script id="jquery" src="/classpath/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"/> <script id="json" src="/classpath/json.js" type="text/javascript"/> </head> <body> <div class="menu"> <lift:menu.builder/> </div> <div class="messages"> <lift:Msgs /> </div> <div class="contents"> <lift:bind name="content" /> </div> </body> </html>