I am trying to make a link that will return to a specific link that equals that of a link clicked on a main page.
Such that:
<a href="link.html" onclick="set this link to memory" target=home></a>
<a href="a memory of that other link" target=home></a>
The idea is that pages within an iframe can have links that users can follow while staying on the main page and the ability to return to original page that was inserted on that frame from a central link on the main page.
Thanks for everyone's help. I researched this quite a bit and tried to use javascript and jquery but I am far too novice to make anything work.
Only try this:
<a href="javascript:;" onclick="window.memLink = ['link.html', this];" target=home>Copier Link!</a>
<a href="javascript:;" onclick="this.href=window.memLink[0]; this.onclick();" target=home>Dynamic Link!!</a>
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So basically I developed a workaround. Instead of using the reload the frame function ,which stops working once you navigate away from the src, I link to another page that contains a frame with the contents being the desired src. This way they can navigate to that page within the frame as far as they want and will always be able to return to the original page by refreshing the parent frame with the link I provided. This should work for now. However, this means that for every page I do this with I will have to create 2 pages to host one desired link within my pages that are to be navigated within iframes. Hopefully there will be some simpler way to do this and hopefully it won't cause problems on mobile platforms when I start designing the pages for that purpose.
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I'm fairly new to web development so I don't have much experience with any of this. I currently have a navbar at the top of my website (made with Foundation), but I don't want it to reload every time the page reloads. I've noticed on several websites that certain parts of the page are kept in place when links are clicked and the url changes. How can I achieve this?
Thanks
There are several ways to achieve this. Using AJAX calls is one of them, iframe another. You could even create a one page application and show/hide elements when certain buttons are clicked. This will however force you to load all the data at once so I won't recommend that (depending on the website).
A small article about how you can use the iframe option.
A small article about the AJAX option, they include a small demo to show how it works.
You can set an <iframe> in your code and have the links in your nav target it. When you click on a link, the <iframe> will load the new content, but the rest of your page will not change.
On one of my website's pages, call it http://website1.com/path, I have an iframe whose source is one of my other websites.
example: <iframe src="http://website2.com"></iframe>
I have a button on website2.com that drives them to the home page of website1.com.
However, when they click that button, website1.com just loads in the iframe. How do I get it to refresh the page and drive them to website1.com as it's own page?
I tried window.top.location.reload() and it didn't work..
Assuming it's a link:
Click me!
You can also do target="_parent", which is useful if you have nested frames and only want to go up one level.
(On that subject, if you want to specifically go up TWO levels... you can't. At least not in HTML. JavaScript: parent.parent.location.href = "xyz";)
I am trying to get this functionality going but am a bit uncertain and don't know how to approach it. I have a master page with a div called "masterDiv". 'masterDiv' makes a load() call and loads content of an external html page called "details.html" from it content div. This is how I am doing it:
$('#masterDiv').load('details.html #content');
content loads up as expected and the url address pops in as "http://www.xyz.com#details"
This is all good and working, but then I thought of those users who may not have JavaScript endabled. I figure I would just direct those users to 'details.html' page directly instead of having the "Master Page" load the content from "details.html" page. So now here is the issue, lets say if I send a user this link:
http://wwww.xyz.com#details
And if that user's browser doesn't have Javascript enabled then obviously JQuery cannot be invoked and therefore load() call will not be made and so on. how can I direct the user to "details.html" page directly, please?
Any insight would be wonderful
Thank you.
Your link probably looks like this :
<a id="myLink" href="#details">Link that the user clicks</a>
When the user clicks the link, jQuery load is called. Is that correct?
If so, you could instead have your link like this :
<a id="myLink" href="http://wwww.xyz.com/details.html">Link that the user clicks</a>
That way, when the page loads, the link will work for everyone (even those with javascript disabled). Then, when the page first loads :
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#myLink').attr('href', '#details');
});
will set the link to the way it was before. That way, only users with Javascript enabled will use the load version. The other ones will simply be redirected to details.html
If there is something I haven't understood correctly in the question let me know.
how can I direct the user to "details.html" page directly, please?
By making the link's href attribute "details.html". The way every link works by default.
Details
Every link on your site should be built this way. That is how the Internet is designed to work, and how it works best. You should only add functionality with JavaScript if you actually need to, you shouldn't be depending on it for something as fundamental as linking between pages.
I've seen some similar questions about this around here but I didn't see anything that might be able to help me here. I am making a web site and I want each page to fade in on load and fade out when someone clicks a link. I have that down with jQuery but between the pages there is a white flash before the pages load. I tried moving around my javascript but in some cases the page didn't load correctly. I'm a bit new to this so I may need a bit of explanation on any possible solutions.
Here is the live site:
http://codyshawdesign.com
The HTML is valid in 4.01 Transitional. I've heard about something like Ajax or pagination but I am unsure how to implement those or what I would have to do to put it in my site or if it would even be the most ideal solution. Thanks for any help!
Shouldn't you only update a portion of a page, not the whole page? Now you have many full scale pages with different file names. The page address changes so the whole page is loaded. It's like refreshing the current with ctrl+r/cmd+r page and that isn't very ajaxy.
One solution would be to have a master page which contains all of the common elements between pages such as header, footer and navigation bar. On that page you have a div (or some other area) where you load information dynamically from a different file. What info is loaded could be determined with GET variables via anchor tags or ajax form buttons.
See for example this link and it's demo.
http://www.queness.com/post/328/a-simple-ajax-driven-website-with-jqueryphp
It's pretty basic but it demonstrates the idea not to load the whole page but only a portion of it. Add some styles and you're ready to go.
Sorry if this doesn't help. Maybe there is a way to refresh the whole page without the white flash. Easy solution would be to change the background color to white but then again, it wouldn't be very ajaxy...
With do pagination you would have to return all pages right when the the user visits your index.php and then you would use javascript to show and hide the right divs as the user clicks the links in menu, that's not good in your case, it'll make the user wait for the entire site even if he's not willing to look at all of it.
AJAX seems the right way, and u can easily implement it with jQuery load method. Just to get you started:
$(function(){
$("a").click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$("#pageContent").load($(this).attr("href"));
);
});
This should cause all your links to replace the content of the pageContent div with the content returned by the link without flashing the screen.
I have been trying to solve this problem for a while now and have looked on numerous forums to find a solution. Here is my setup. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I currently have a index page that loads a JavaScript header and footer above and below my "content" section. I also have a list of navigation links inside of the header. My music player is located in the footer. It does not load automatically (for those that are bothered by that), and i don't want it to reload every time someone clicks on one of the navigation links on the side. I don't want to use frames for this; I have read that frames will allow me to only refresh the "content" section of my page, but that when indexing a site, most search engines will not work well with a site that has frames. I also do not want to use a pop-up for my music as most browsers and users have pop-ups blocked.
Basically i am looking for a code or something that will allow for a header and footer (doesn't have to be a JS header and footer) to not refresh when someone clicks on the navigation links located in my header. Thanks again to anyone that has a solution to this problem.
Do it like Facebook - use JavaScript to intercept link navigation, load the content using XMLHttpResponse, and then update the portions of the page that need to change.
This keeps the static integrity of the page for search engines, allows most of the site to still work just fine for users with scripting disabled, and avoids resetting the music for everyone else.
What Shog9 said, but also make sure to change location.hash whenever you change the content and make it so that visiting the website with that hash will redirect you to the correct page.
Here's another example of a band that uses the AJAX method to reload the page content, while keeping the player going...
http://jonandroy.ca/
The URL hashtag gets updates each time you click on something, and if you copy that URL, when you visit it, you'll see the homepage load for a split second, and then it loads the content of the page specified by the hashtag. Not perfect, but an overall good solution to this age-old problem.
You might want to look at how thesixtyone.com works. They have non-interrupted music by using AJAX to rebuild the page when a link is clicked rather than load a new one. This is achieved by having all links be anchors for the current page (i.e. all links are relative and start with a hash character).