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iFrame linking

Linking from another site to my site that will pull up the iFrame page

visuale

8:31 pm on Mar 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

Here is my situation,

Let's say I am on AIM and I want to link a friend to a certain page on my website that uses iFrames. Say the page I want to link him to is the 'FAQ' page. If I give him this link 'www.mysite.com/faq.html' it will just bring up that page and not bring it up inside the iFrame on index.html

How do I do this? I hope I have explained it well enough.

Thanks!

tedster

11:05 pm on Mar 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

Weclome to to forums, visuale.

Any html document that is displayed within a frame or an iframe can (and should, IMO) also contain script that inserts it into its parent page in the event that someone comes there directly -- an "orphan"display of a page that is intended to have a "parent" . Search engines index frame documents a lot and send people directly to the orphan all the time.

Thid can be done with javascript. We have an example of how to do this with a regular frame page - but you can adapt the idea for an iframe page with just a few changes:

See Message #21 on:
[webmasterworld.com...]

visuale

8:06 am on Mar 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

First off, thanks for the welcome.
Second, I took a look at that code. So by modifying the script a bit, do you think this will work?


<html>
<head>
<title>Master Frameset</title>
</head><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
origURL = parent.document.URL
contentURL = origURL.substring(origURL.indexOf('?')+1, origURL.length)
document.write('<iframe src="home.html" name="nav"><frame src=\"' + contentURL + '\" name="content"><\/iframe>')</script>
</html>

So i make a whole new html document solely for this purpose, is this correct?

tedster

5:33 pm on Mar 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

Yes, that is exactly the idea. Also, put the other bit of script on every potential content page and you can send people directly to the content url - it should pop right in to the (new) parent page.

visuale

8:06 pm on Mar 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

Okay thanks a lot.
I'm testing this right now. As for the linking part, will I need to make a link like this

http://www.mysite.com/?=page.html

Or will I just be able to direct them to the page.html?

tedster

10:10 pm on Mar 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

You can just send people to what would be the orphan page - the script there generates the query string and attaches it to the url it uses to redirect to the parent page..

iFrame linking

Linking from another site to my site that will pull up the iFrame page

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