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**Silent77** · 01-23-2007, 11:44 PM

I have a page called index1.html. On index1 there is a link to index2.html. index2 has an iframe on it. When a user is on index1 and they click a link, Contact, I want the page to load index2.html and load contact.html inside the iframe. No src= will not work with this because index2 is like a master page (only in xhtml not asp). Any tips on how to make this work?

Thanks.

**travelagent** · 01-24-2007, 01:49 AM

Are you trying to link from a list of links to an iframe on the same page, or dual iframe linking?

**RanaD** · 01-24-2007, 06:40 AM

So here's what I understand:
index1.html has 2 links: index2.html (normal) & index2.html (with contact details)
You want a user clicking on the link to index2.html (normal) to go to index2.html with whatever information on.
But if the same user clicked on the link index2.html (with contact details), you want them to go to index2.html (normal), displaying contact details instead of the normal details on the page.
Right?

**Silent77** · 01-24-2007, 09:03 AM

Im trying to have the link on index1 to link to index2 but display the contact page in the iframe index2.

**Mattmaul1992** · 09:33 AM

Were is this i-frame placed. Could you possible link us to what you already have so we can get a better understanding of exactly what you want.
Or is all you want an i-frame on index1.html that shows index2.html but at the same time you want a link on index1.html to index2.html?

**Silent77** · 01-24-2007, 01:42 PM

Index 1

Code:

<html>
<body>
body text
<a href="index2.html">Index 2</a>
</body>
</html>

Index 2

Code:

<html>
<body>
body text
<iframe name="iFrame1" width=498 height=476 src="" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0"></iframe>
</body>
</html>

Contact Page

Code:

<html>
<body>
=Contact form=
</body>
</html>

i want the index 2 link on the index 1 page to go to index2.html and load the contact page inside the iframe on index 2

**LadynRed** · 01-24-2007, 03:13 PM

It would be better to avoid iframes entirely and just give users a link to the contacts page. If you have to have it your way, I would still suggest NOT using iframes, but a CSS alternative that works like an iframe:

http://www.aplus.co.yu/web-dev/inser...her-html-page/

**RanaD** · 01-24-2007, 03:20 PM

You're being exceptionally cryptic.

From what I see, I don't think an iframe is necessary, as index2.html is only used for the contact form (as opposed to framing various different pages). If it was necessary (for some reason beyond my logic), surely src= would work, even in xhtml (trust me, I have a page in xhtml from which I load another site with a menu of my site at the top).

I'm not fond of iframes. They're bad for various reasons. If you can do Server Side Includes on your hosting account, use them instead. (If you really don't want to just put the form in your index2.html file)

UNLESS you're trying to hide the code of your contact form...

In which case you should try something else that I don't know of.

Now come on, don't let us think twice, trying to guess what you're really trying to achieve, and then trying to figure out how to help you. Tell us the story, the whole story and nothing but the story, so help my Codebook.

**Silent77** · 10:21 PM

I did tell you the story but I can't link you to the site since it is a client site.
An iframe is necessary (or CSS iframe like LadynRed mentioned).
I am not only trying to load the contact page into the iframe I want to load more pages (different page loaded for each link). I didn't say this before because I didn't think it was relevant.
The index1 page has more than one link.

**saadatshah** · 01-25-2007, 05:00 AM

use querystring to send a parameter and then write a javascript method to load the page (sent throught querystring) in the iframe.

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