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Using frames to load in a new page

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alexanderdring

alexanderdring

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Dec 27, 2002
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Hi everyone,

This is probably quite simple, but I have a single page in HTML with some content and a single button and I would like to use a frameset to replace the entire page with new content while keeping exactly the same URL in the address bar. Can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks in advance.

Alex
 
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To clarify, that would be: when you press the button, the page changes using frames! Thanks!
 
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do you have an understanding of frames? do you currently have frames set up? please try to be more specific when asking questions - it's much easier for Clive to help when you do so.



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If you want the URL to remain the same, you will either have to use client-side scripting to dynamically build a frameset, or use server-side scripting to output different content for the same URL.

It's been a while since I've clowned around with frames, but I'm pretty sure that's the case.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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Although it makes my skin itch to do it... try this:

Make a frameset page
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN"
"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"[/URL] xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<frameset cols="100%">
	<frame src="page.html" name="main" scrolling="auto"  frameborder="0" />
	<noframes>
		<body>
		No Frames content here
		</body>
	</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>


Note that we set up the frameset with just 1 frame.

Load your pages into it, and specify links within them with the attribute target="main" like so:

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[/URL]
<head>
<title>You will never see this - page</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<body>
<p>This is called <b>page.html</b>, although your address bar will show the URL of the frameset it is loaded into.</p>
<p><a href="anotherpage.html" target="main">Load another page</a></p>
</body>
</html>

This way, the URL in the address bar will always show your frameset URL.

HOWEVER
Consider why you want to do this.
What is the benefit to your users in having a static URL in their address bar.
More importantly, consider the disadvantages to your users.

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I don't think you'll need those [tt]target[/tt] attributes - if a page is being displayed inside a frame, any linked pages will be shown in the same frame unless you override it with a different [tt]target[/tt].

Agreed it's a fairly pointless operation though.

-- Chris Hunt
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I must have mis-understood the initial requirements.

I had thought that a regular (non-frame) page was shown, and when the button on that page was clicked, the page was replaced with a frameset - but keeping the URL the same.

Alex,

Can you clarify if that is the case, or whether having a frameset loaded initially would be acceptable?

Dan



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