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**dmaier** · 08-10-2008, 01:28 PM

I think there is a way to do this. I have a link site which links to newspaper headlines. What I would like to do is when a visitor clicks on the headline link, to show my header above the page that is being displayed. I think there is a way to do it. Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance for your help

**bill benson** · 08-10-2008, 05:35 PM

Open the link in an iframe should work. I don't use iframes much, but it might be a solution.

**dmaier** · 08-10-2008, 08:15 PM

Bill:

How would I do that with the following code?

<a href=<%=link%>"> <%=hl%></a> </font> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="blue"><%=pdt%>

**SpiderWeb** · 08-10-2008, 11:54 PM

**bill benson** · 08-11-2008, 12:38 AM

I'll defer to spiderweb regarding the code.

The code/ text in the iframe is invisible to the search engines. Headers are usually mostly images. You might want to add some SEO friendly stuff before the iframe so the search engines see something about the page. Otherwise its pretty much a blank page to the search engines.

From a SEO standpoint, there are better ways of doing this, but it would be a lot more complicated.

**dmaier** · 08-11-2008, 09:41 AM

Spiderweb, I think you may have misunderstood what I am trying to do. I have a page that displays headlines from different newspapers. They are in a SQL database and are called on a page via ASP. What I would like to do is when someone clicks on one of them, it would show my header and then the newspaper header and article beneath. What you are suggesting would seem to be too time consuming.

What I need is something I can program in the page to automatically do this. Feel free to private message me if this functionality is available.

**Truly** · 08-11-2008, 11:17 AM

Thats exactly what he is telling you to do. Just add php into the ifram and it will do it automatically. Although I will save the standards junkies the time (looks at LadyNRed :P ) and say that you really should do that. Users know how to use the back button, if they want to come back to your website they will come back. Headers like that just piss everyone off. AT LEAST put an option in the header to go directly to the site and get rid of the header.

**dmaier** · 08-11-2008, 12:18 PM

Unfortunately that doesn't work. On a page that has tons of links, I see the header and headlines below each. It occurs tons of times on the page. I just want something that will show the header and then the other page below when I click on it. This doesn't do it.

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