i spent a lot of time yesterday redoing my whole website with iframes for each section but once
i put everything onto the server i found that the links inside the iframes opened inside the iframes rather than in the whole window. how do i escape from the iframe to open a link in the whole window or a new window?
i have just left an example iframe page at http://www.fieryidris.co.uk/iframe.htm so the problem can be seen.
thanks shephunts for target="_top".
i ate some bad fish on saturday and i was already deteriorating when the iframes not doing what i expected finished me off.
i have now done some proper research on the different target commands and checked what happens when you use them in an iframe.
all these links below and the results are within an iframe
<a href="http://www.google.co.uk" target="_blank"> will open google in a new window
<a href="http://www.google.co.uk" target="_parent"> will open google in all of the current window
<a href="http://www.google.co.uk" target="_self"> will open google inside the iframe
<a href="http://www.google.co.uk" target="_top"> will open google in all of the current window
<a href="http://www.google.co.uk"> with no target command will open google inside the iframe
separately from this problem i had of escaping from the iframe i have also been emailed some screenshots by my sister of how the iframe page is being displayed in different browsers and it's not looking very good.
the border of the iframe is only showing on the right hand side and the bottom - i'm not sure if this is because i have got a black background as it seemed to work ok for me in internet explorer and firefox before when the background was red.
in netscape 4.7 the iframe is not displayed at all and the top of the page is just followed by the bottom. i know netscape is now 8.0 so 4.7 is very out of date but is this going to affect any other browsers and destroy the page layout making the iframe a bad idea?
seem silly but i have done that before, but it didn't work, perhaps because i was making that call from a java scrip, have any body try that, make the same call from a javascript function?
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