Is there a way to load a page in a layer.

vcherubini · Jan 19, 2001

Hello:

I am working on a project and I need to know if there is a way to load a webpage into a layer (div, or span). Is this possible?

I have some code working so far, but it loads the page into a new window:

[tt]
<html>
<head>
<title>
load page</title>
</head>
<script language=javascript>
function loadpage() {
open("

http://www.epicsoftware.com");

}
</script>
<body>
<div id=placetoloadpage onmload="loadpage()" style="border:1px solid black; width:500px; height:500px;">

</div>
</body>
</html>
[/tt]

I know that it is basic, but I thought that it would work.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

-Vic
vic cherubini
malice365@hotmail.com

http://www.epicsoftware.com

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jaredn · Jan 19, 2001

since you are not referencing any object when you call open, it is going to look (through the scope chain) to see what object has a method open. In this case it is the window (global) object, so you are just calling window.open("somepage.htm&quot

basically, which is why you ended up with a new window.

There are 3 solutions I know of which will solve your problem, all of which (I think?) require that the page you are trying to load is on the same domain (server?) as the page doing the loading.

IE4+/NS6:

load the code in a hidden frame, and pull the contents out of it piece by piece and assign it to the innerHTML property of your 'layer'

IE5.5 - the download behavior (best):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/c-frame.htm#/workshop/author/default.asp

and, if you must support NS4.X (which < 10% of total pop uses now) i think you can assign a src to a layer, something like:

document.layers.layername.src="somefile.htm"

Also, you could maybe (IE4+?) use a borderless i-frame.

jared@aauser.com

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Is there a way to load a page in a layer.

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