I have a site that I'm working on that is using a lightbox. The lightbox opens up a page to an e-commerce script that I bought which is a hosted solution (not on my server). I have no control of the source code on the page that I'm loading in the lightbox but I'm running into a problem.

When you submit the form in the lightbox, the results come back replacing the parent (whole page). Therefore the lightbox is gone and the user is actually on the other site which is nothing but the results.

I examined the code inside the page that I was loading within the lightbox and I think the problem is that there is a target="_top" element when defining the form:

<form action=resultspackage.cgi name=frm method=post target="_top">

Is there a way (maybe with javascript) to remove that target="_top" so that the results will come back in the lightbox instead of a new page?

You should use your own lightbox script, so that you would control the code.

I have control of the lightbox script. It is the target page that I don't have control over. Imagine this:

- Mysite.com has a lightbox that when pops open displays google.com

- Now, imagine that google.com has a form on there that when you click "Search" it has a target set to "_top".

Basically what I want to do is take out the target attribute so that it goes to the iframe instead of a new page all together.

Do you follow what I mean?

Any HTML that is served from a remote server you won't be able to manipulate. This is for security reasons, to prevent people from injecting scripts into remote pages while spying on its users. It would be easy to make an IFRAME look like a normal browser window, for example, and if you could monitor or change the attributes of what was in the IFRAME via JavaScript, you could create scripts to spy on users of that site.

Shoot. I wish I could do this, now I'm going to be forced to use a pop-up, I was trying to avoid that for asthetic reasons.

Thanks for the help!

Originally Posted by wayfarer07

Any HTML that is served from a remote server you won't be able to manipulate. This is for security reasons, to prevent people from injecting scripts into remote pages while spying on its users. It would be easy to make an IFRAME look like a normal browser window, for example, and if you could monitor or change the attributes of what was in the IFRAME via JavaScript, you could create scripts to spy on users of that site.

As far as I read in SEO perspective, the use of IFrames does no good in site content because spiders or bots can't crawl into them but in that statement, It seems that Iframes is also essential.

In this particular case SEO is not important. This frame only contains a form for the purpose of generating dynamic content (a product listing). Therefore it isn't going to make a difference, but thanks for the input.