iframe question

autumn · Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 13

Hi, I'm in the process of building a website and I have a little problem with iframes. I know that this question has been covered numerous times in here but I still don't get how it works. My website has several pages beside the main page which is index.html What I want is that whenever my visitors click on a link to a page of my website, it would open in the iframes only and not having to refresh the whole page. I hope it makes sense and please help!!!

Corey Bryant · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:02 am

Make sure to name your frames and then target those names.

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autumn · Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 13

How do I target them? Sorry if this is such a dumb question, I'm really new to this and I'm not very good with html; therefore I'm using a program called "Webpage Maker V2" to design my website.

Corey Bryant · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:46 am

Target:

autumn · Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 13

I've got that code from one of the thread in here but I still don't get how you do it. I want to target my frames somewhat similar to this website:

http://www.geocities.com/forever_anne_heung/
just a random webpage I picked

How do I go to target frames in frames? in other word, how do I target links inside the frames? Sorry for the trouble but I would really appreciate your help!

Corey Bryant · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:08 am

I looked at the source code but that did not have an <iframe> tag.

autumn · Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 13

Can you help me with the html please! I tried to do it but it just doesn't work. I'm clueless when it comes to html Sad

This is my html code

and this is what I get

how can I link page 3 to another page (i'll just call it "page4") which of course also load into the same iframe?

Corey Bryant · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:27 am

In page three, you will have links that target innerframe

autumn · Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 13

Finally, now I get it. I have another question though. Instead of the text "page3", suppose if I have an image at its place, how do I link that?

Corey Bryant · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:14 am

Create an HTML page and insert the image into that. that way you can still control the information in that page

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autumn · Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 13

can you still explain that a bit further please,sorry! I really don't know where to start. What I get from your statement is that the image needs to be on a page of its own? And if I have more than one image, then I need to create HTML page for each of those?

autumn · Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 13

Oh, never mind! I think I know how to insert the images. However, I encounter another problem, I hope you can help. Now how can I target that image to another page which also would open in the same iframes? I put in the iframes code and when I clicked on the image, it opened to the page I wanted but that page doesn't seem to stay in the iframes box.

autumn · Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 13

Wow, i'm so happy I finally figured it out. I'm getting the hang of these HTML codes. I can't thank enough for helping me, appreciate it!!! Just want to add that although I kind of get how HTML works, I might have problems now and then during the process of building my website. So I might be back in this forum asking more questions about HTML. Anywayz,just want to comment that this forum is so informative, a great web help to newbie like me, definitely will check back for more tips and info on web designing.

Corey Bryant · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:58 am

Glad you got it. Remember it is always good to create a new post when you have a new question and if you can, I would recommend to stay away from (i)frames, especially if you are going to rely on search engines a lot. Included Content would be better.

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autumn · Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 13

Hi, sorry for bothering you again but I need help. I didn't start a new thread because my question is about iframes. How can I get a page (let's just call it page1) to load into my "Main" page? so that when people type in my web addresss, they would automatically see page1 on the main page's frame box. I used the "target" code but it didn't work.

These codes are from my "Main" page