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**lizard dude** · 01-05-2006, 09:48 PM

Hey i used to make websites with frames but i wanted to change and use tables as its better for my script.
But i have a question:
I want to use the cell on the right (the one with the iframe right now) to be used as a frame for the links.
Can anyone help me?

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<title>websites</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function tick()
{
//create a new date object
var now=new Date();
//get the time
var hh=now.getHours();
var mn=now.getMinutes();
var ss=now.getSeconds();
var ms=now.getMilliseconds();

//make sure each components has two digits:
if(hh<=9)hh="0"+hh;
if(mn<=9)mn="0"+mn;
if(ss<=9)ss="0"+ss;
if(ms<=9)ms="0"+ms;
//put the time on the form:
document.f.clock.value=hh+":"+mn+":"+ss+":"+ms;
//set interval to one second
window.setTimeout("tick()",1);
}

</script>
</head>
<body onload="tick()">
<body bgcolor="#000000"></body>
<body text="#c0c0c0"></body>
<body link="#ffff00"></body>
<table>
<td><img src="logo.gif" width="875" height="150" alt="logo (23K)" /></td>
</table>
<table>
<tr>
  <td width="100" height="500">
<img src="micsoccball.jpg" width="65" height="50" alt="micsoccball (1K)" />
<div>
<br>
<a href="content.htm" target=mainframe title="Homepage">Home</a><div>
<br>
<a href="http://www.djbenjib.skyblog.com" target=mainframe title="My webblog">Pictures</a><div>
<br>
<a href="contact.htm" target=mainframe title="A little bit about me">The webmaster</a><div>
<br>
<a href="http://www.benjidela.com/forum" target=mainframe title="The place where you can talk for free...">The forum!</a><div>
<br>
<a href="podcast.htm" target=mainframe title=" Where you can listen to my podcast (music)">Podcast</a><div>
<br>
<a href="websites.htm" target=mainframe title="All the websites I've done">Websites</a><div>
<br>
<a href="http://www.benjidela.com/guestbook" target=mainframe title="Leave a trace of you here">Sign my guestbook!</a><div>
<br>
<a href="friends.htm" target=mainframe titel="Special dedication for my real friends">Friends</a>
<!--here is the form for the clock-->
<form name="f">
	<input type="text" name="clock" value="">
</form>
</td>
<td>
<h1><center><b><font size=10>Welcome to my website!</b></center></h1><div>
<h2><b><font color="#ffffff"font size=6>News:</font><b></h2><div>
<iframe src="news.htm" width=600height=400 align=center></iframe>
</td>
</tr>




</body>
</html>

Thanks in advance

**lizard dude** · 01-06-2006, 11:24 PM

Please help

**vangogh** · 01-07-2006, 01:34 AM

I'm not really sure what you're asking. What's the actual problem you're having?

**chrishirst** · 01-07-2006, 04:33 AM

You can't use <td> in the same way as a frame for targetting content

Why on earth do you have 3 open and close <body> tags in that code ??????

**lizard dude** · 01-07-2006, 04:24 PM

Well for the body tags i was adding colors from a tutorial and it always added it.
But the problem is that i want the table where the iframe is to be like a mainframe. the links will load a page in that table.

**vangogh** · 01-07-2006, 07:51 PM

For the body tag issue you can add all those attributes to one body tag so:

HTML Code:

<body bgcolor="#000000" text="c0c0c0" link='#ffff00">

Don't use a closing body tag there since you have one at the close of the page.

I don't use iframes generally, but I think all you need to add is an id or name to the iframe like:

HTML Code:

<iframe id="mainframe" name="mainframe"></iframe>

as well as adding the other attributes you already have on the iframe. I think adding the id will be enough, but I know in some places IE needs the name attribute.

I think that will work, but like I said I generally, actually never use iframes.

**lizard dude** · 01-07-2006, 11:12 PM

What i meant is actually to give the <td> tag an ID and the links will target it.
Here is what could happen:
1.it works and im happy
2.too bad ill put a link with target "_self"
o btw i appreciate all your help

**RoboMonkey** · 01-08-2006, 01:10 AM

I think that this

<iframe src="news.htm" width=600height=400 align=center></iframe>

Should be :

<iframe id="mainframe" name="mainframe" src="news.htm" width=600height=400 align=center></iframe>

**vangogh** · 01-08-2006, 01:48 AM

Sorry Lizard i misunderstood. In that case I have to agree with Chris. You can't use <td> in the same way. It doesn't accept a targetted link. I had thought you were going to keep the <iframe> inside the <td>.

Are you basically trying to have your navigation running down the left side of the page and your content on the right? And are you trying to use the targetted linking so that you won't have to update your navigation on every page in case you want to add something or make a change?

If that's the case you can use PHP (or another scripting language) or SSI (server side includes) to include the navigation on every page while keeping the code for the navigation in a single separate file.

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