Where is the best place to store multiple bodies of text (without database)

Question

Say I have a control that is used on 10 different pages, and this control has a help icon. Each page should display it's own help text -which is about a paragraph each. Which help text to show is selected by a JavaScript function.

I realize in my case 10 paragraphs will not be a significant performance hit; however for the sake of knowledge, what would be the best implementation? Save the text in a server control -such as a HiddenField- or straight in the JavaScript?

Answer 1

If I had to create a DB-less solution, I would do one of three things:

Option 1

Store the text in an XML file that can be read by your web application.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<HelpTexts>
  <HelpText name="HelpText1">
    Some help text
  </HelpText>
  ...
</HelpTexts>

Option 2

Store the text in the web.config.

<add key="HelpText1" value="[Some help text" />

var foo = WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["HelpText1"];

Option 3

Store the text in the template that's using the control and set it as a property. This is my preference because it's relatively clean and allows the control to be used on another page quickly and easily.

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    myControl.HelpText = "[Some help text]";
}