frame-like tables

[rezzij]

I have searched here, and not sure if I understand the results ... I want a link in one cell of a table to open content in another cell of the same table.
Possible or not ?
If so - could you point me to a source or example ?

thanks all

 

[Vragabond]

To be technically correct, not possible. In order for that to work, you would need to span your table over two frames, which is impossible. But what you are describing is a behaviour of a frame. You can however mimic that behaviour.

Say you have a table (which are nowadays deprecated for page layout purposes but anyway) where left column is navigation while right column is content. When you click on an item in the left column, new page loads, which has the same navigation on the left and different content on the right. Since left navigation is all cached by now, the delay in loading the left part is minimal and the visual experience is the same or similar to using frames.

Another possibility is hiding and displaying content. This does not require reloads from either the left or right side. In this scenario buttons on the left part simply control which part is hidden and which is showing in the right part. This approach has many limitations, from the fact that it uses javascript to show relevant pages to a much longer loading time of the first page, because that page contains all the information, only that some of it is hidden at the moment of first load.

I hope this has helped you. I would personally recommend the first option.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Another option would be to place an iframe in the required cell and target the content to appear in it (no JS required, either).

Hope this helps,
Dan



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