Ok - I am making a site for a local videogame company (It actually is up and running) and they were given permission to link to a website in the same area.

Basically - what they want to do is use Iframes to sort of split the screen up, so if you click a certain link on the site, you see their webpage and the other webpage.

My problem is - I can't keep links that are being clicked contained within the IFRAMES.

Here is a url to explain what I am talking about

http://www.videogamebuddy.com/main3.htm

Ok - this is sort of what we want to do (although we are not going to use Gamespot or Gamerankings - but I was trying to come up with a "Mock" something to see if it was what they wanted"

Basically - I want to be able to click a link in the "Gamespot" site and have it be contained within that frame - NOT sent the entire webpage to a new page. Click a news article and you will see that it overwrites and navigates out of the entire original website. The site that is going in there I have no control over....

so... my question. Is there a way (maybe using Javascript?) To make it so any link that is clicked will stay within their desired IFRAME.

Thanks

wakasm

I think it all depends on the page you are pulling into the IFRAME so it may be out of your control. IFRAME is not supported by all browsers and is a terrible way of including content in web sites.

Why not see if the Gamespot site offers RSS syndication / XML feeds for the data you want then you can really make it look the part in your site?

Any more questions - Just shout!

Andrew
www.hostyorkshire.com

Yeah I wasn't sure - Gamespot isn't even the site - I just used a random one to test it. I actually don't have the link to the site i am supposed to be using yet (the guy who i make the site is often times non-communicative... but hey he pays me so what can I do).

That being said - I don't understand why some links stay within an IFRAME or sometimes they just overwrite the page. (If you click the top links they stay there).

I was told there is a way to force links to do what you want - either with javascript or some html coding in the header of the page you can put to make any link stay - but I can't seem to find this out to be true or not.

If someone has a solution other than IFRAMES - I'll also take it. For now I am just using Gamespot and Gamerankings as "test" sites because I know there is a lot of content and links to fool around with.

Thanks again! (I also posted this in the Javascript section to see if they had an answer)

I can use an RSS feed I found out

But I have no idea how to use the xml data I was given.