Need help with linking on a site with iframe

[littlebitweird]

I'm making a new website now, but I have one problem. I have built the site so that the content opens in an iframe. So I have a menu to the left, and then the links in the menu leads to the iframe.
However, the menu is rather long, so when I scroll down on the page and click on a link, it opens in the iframe, but the site is still scrolled down.
Is there any possibility to make the index page scroll up to top at the same time as the link/page opens in the iframe?
I need to know this before I create too many of the pages that are going to be included.
I want to create a website that is easy to update - not having the menu on each and every one of the pages, because then it takes ages to update the menu...

The site will look something like this, though I will host it at another place later to avoid those ads...
http://medlem.spray.se/hanson/3/en/index.html
No links are working, unfortunately... But if I click on a link, it opens in the iframe, but the site stays scrolled down... And that's what I need help with avoiding.

[StupidScript]

You're talking about 2 location indicators with one click? Script it.

i.e.
Click 1 = Relocate the source of the iframe to a menu item's source
Click 1 = ALSO relocate the main page (around the iframe) to its #top

<a
 href="somemenuitem.html"
 target="iframeNAME"
 onclick="top.location.href='#top'">Menu Item</a>

This begs the question: Why use an iframe at all? In essence, you want the main page to start at the #top each time, but change the content of one particular area of that page ... so why not just wrap the changing content in identical headers and footers? You're losing the value of the menu/iframe concept if you need to re-scroll to the top with each menu click. Its effect is the same as loading a new page, and once the first page has loaded into the browser's cache, loading a complete page in will take about the same time as loading changing content into an iframe.

You can still use the iframe for its independent scrolling action, but there's no need to get script-tricky, really.

[littlebitweird]

Thank you for your help! Though I solved it in another way than I was thinking of at first - with a bit of php coding (which I have never used before). So now the site works exactly as I want it to!

[DaveyBoy]

yeah, PHP includes would work to stop you having to update every page.

[Bernard]

Originally Posted by littlebitweird

I want to create a website that is easy to update - not having the menu on each and every one of the pages, because then it takes ages to update the menu...

If you are using PHP, it is very easy to put the menu in a single file and include it on individual pages. When you want to update the menu, you only need to do it one time. The same process can apply to headers and footers.


Ummm... Like DaveyBoy suggested above....