Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/20/06 21:37

greencw3 wrote:
> Can I make a hyperlink (from email or an external site) to load a page
> so that it is in its native setting, as it would be seen navigating
> through our site, inside an iframe on the site's home page. Here is
> the directory structure of the three pages in question:
>
> home/folder1/index.htm
> our home page containing all navigational links for the site; also
> contains iframe (name=iframe), which holds all content as users
> navigate through the site
>
> home/folder1/iframe_main.htm
> loads into the iframe by default when index.htm is accessed
>
> home/folder2/news.htm
> This is the page I would like to access externally and directly so that
> it loads into the iframe on index.htm.
>
> Is there a way to do this with a hyperlink, or do I need Javascript?

Bingo! You have hit on maybe the #1 problem with FRAMES. You have to
utilize some kludge method of passing a parameter in the URL and either
process with JavaScript(bad) or server-side (bit better) or (best)
dump the frames...

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Take care,

Jonathan
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