Open Link in frame; like About.com

tryinghard · February 10th, 2009, 12:32 AM

I am developing a website and need to open pages in frames exactly how About.com does it. (For example go here and click on an external link like Cexx.org)

It looks like there is some kind of script running that makes any external link open in that way.

How can I implement the same?

Thank you!

colin104 · March 4th, 2009, 05:06 PM

Step 1. You need to create a frameset, i.e. the page that contains all frames. Usually it is a html page named "index.html" and its code is something like this:

<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="15%,*">
<frame name="top" src="index1.html">
<frame name="bottom" src="index2.html">
<noframes>
<body>
<p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

Step 2. You need to set the initial pages for the two frames. In the above example they are "index1.html" and "index2.html"

Step 3. When you make links in the code of index2.html (the lower frame) use this format:
<a target="_self" href="http://...................................">link text</a>
Links will open in the same frame, while the upper frame will remain unchanged.

Hope this helps...