IFRAME and links

Calisonder · 05-05-2007, 06:50 PM

i have an iframe that is part of my navagation. how to i make it where someone can click the link in the iframe, but it loads up in the main page.

please see example pic

i think there is a simple short javascript????

thanks

waffles · 05-05-2007, 07:52 PM

Don't use iframes.

Seriously. You can use PHP or server side includes and keep the ability to only update one file to change the menu everywhere. The server treats it as if you have the menu hard coded onto every page.

Calisonder · 05-05-2007, 10:00 PM

i understand that but doesn't my pape have to be .php instead of .html to use php. if not then i would do that?

waffles · 05-06-2007, 06:13 AM

PHP is just an extension that tells your server that there could be some PHP code to parse.

You can also go into you .htaccess file and tell it to parse things with an HTML extension, although I'm not sure how to set that up.

The easier route would be to change everything to PHP pages, put in that code, set a line in your .htacess file to change all .html extensions to .php and you're good to go.

Calisonder · 05-06-2007, 12:21 PM

ok thanks i did that on one of my sites, i just did, find all, replace .html with .php, so now all my links are updated and everything

but i still would like to know how to do what is stated in my initial question, the picture diagram i'm using is not actually what i'm doing, i just didn't fell like completly explaining myself.

i'm actually making a mini search that is done using i frames but appears like an actually database search but infact is not.

so i still need to know how that is done.

anybody?

Calisonder · 05-17-2007, 01:57 PM

this is my code:

<select name="category" onchange="window.open(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value,'_self')">
<option value='' selected="selected">- Tenants -</option>
<option value='properties.html' >2</option>
<option value='properties.html'>3</option>

</select>

and the target="_top" attribute is not supported by the option tag?

can anyone help?

Brian M · 05-17-2007, 09:42 PM

Here is a link to a thread that you may find useful. It has code to target an i-frame when a link is pressed.

Linking Buttons To an I-frame

alainkun · 05-18-2007, 12:20 AM

You should some of this targets:
target="_self"
target="_blank"
target="_top"
etc

Costin Trifan · 05-18-2007, 04:06 AM

Not quite, alainkun

Here is the answer:

Quote:

Here is a link to a thread that you may find useful. It has code to target an i-frame when a link is pressed.

Linking Buttons To an I-frame