image link to anchor in iframe

[user friendly]

hi, okay heres how it is: i have a parent page with links down one side all images. next to them is an iframe with anchors in it. i wish to link from the images to the individual anchors in the iframe without opening a new page. all i have managed to get is a new page that has an error. im resonably good with html and javascript but if you could post the source code for this it would be much apreciated.

[tedster]

Hi, and welcome to the forums.

It all hangs on giving the iframe a name attribute - <iframe name="thisone" src="page.html"></iframe>

Then your links from the main page just need to have a target attribute:

<a href="page2.html" target="thisone"></a>

[user friendly]

thanks. my iframe is named welcome and the anchor is named albania (its a socom II webquiz for computer studies) and i have tried that but it seems to open in a new window. ill try it again and post what my result is.

EDIT: okay done but all it does is open in a new window it doesnt even go down to the anchor. ill tell you this though im not using iframes again talk about pain in the ass! lol

[edited by: user_friendly at 8:47 am (utc) on Aug. 11, 2004]

[kaled]

I imagine that using javascript to set the IFRAME document.location value will work.

e.g.

iframe_name.location.replace('iframe_contents.html#iframe_anchor');

Kaled.

[user friendly]

il ltry that but im a little rusty on my javascript can i put that in a link?

[user friendly]

okay thanks alot man but its just opening a new window.

[user friendly]

fixed