Link in iFrame to the same browser window?

seanie morris · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 49 Location: Offaly, Ireland

Hi folks,

I have added a small iFrame which shows a thumbnail from a gallery I have installed (4Images). The work-in-progress and the 'thumbnail iframe' can be seen here:

http://www.tullamorelife.net/index2.html

I tweaked an associated php file for the 4Images gallery programme to open up from when the thumbnail is clicked to (what will be my new) site gallery introduction page, instead of the actual image in the 4Images gallery. However, as it is embedded in the iframe, the only way I can find opening the page properly is with the "_blank" target path. Using "_parent" and "_self" will only open up the page in the tiny iFrame. Can this be ovrcome?

I have looked back on some older posts, and I am not sure, but would the following post suit my request?

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/help/ftopic8381.html

Thanks for looking,

Seanie.

Corey Bryant · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:14 am

is the the code

seanie morris · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 49 Location: Offaly, Ireland

Hi Corey,
that is the current code above, yes. What I want to do is replace the "_blank" tag with "_parent" or "_self" and have the link open in the same browser window, and not a new one, and also not in the iframe from which the link as you can see is contained therein.

Seanie.

Corey Bryant · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:57 am

Name your iframe and then target your iframe.

seanie morris · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 49 Location: Offaly, Ireland

seanie morris · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 49 Location: Offaly, Ireland

By the way, if there was no solution, but even out of curiosity anyway, can I contain the whole body of the webpage in an iframe? Then give that a name (e.g. "mainiframe"), and reference the link from the thumbnails iframe to "mainiframe"?

Corey Bryant · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:05 am

You could try to target the mainframe - but you seemed to have two iframes. Any reason why you are using iframes? They cause more problems unfortunately.

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seanie morris · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 49 Location: Offaly, Ireland

Corey Bryant · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:43 am

Frames / iframes are basically the same (problematic) thing. I view a lot of sites on my Blackberry and frames are very cumbersome on a browser like that.

Use divs or even tables to help layout a website. In my opinion (and a lot of others) frames just should not be used at all - from SE point-of-views to browsers.

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