diff --git a/templates/includes/footer-embed.php b/templates/includes/footer-embed.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..308b1d01b6ca1e7ab1b1fa896e6a8497bbcd1a37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/includes/footer-embed.php
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/templates/includes/header-embed.php b/templates/includes/header-embed.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dce6cba61c39f8133765b977f234ee1cd849a5c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/includes/header-embed.php
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
+<title><?php
+if(array_key_exists('header', $this->data)) {
+ echo $this->data['header'];
+} else {
+ echo 'simpleSAMLphp';
+}
+?></title>
+
+ <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/<?php echo $this->data['baseurlpath']; ?>resources/default.css" />
+ <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />
+
+<?php
+if(array_key_exists('head', $this->data)) {
+ echo '<!-- head -->' . $this->data['head'] . '<!-- /head -->';
+}
+?>
+</head>
+<body>
+