Targeting Tables/Frames

message from ragbagger on 22 Jul 2004

I've read to avoid designing a site in Frames because of browser search and
display complications.

Is there a way to target a table with a link? For instance, I created a nav
bar in the top table and a page display in the bottom table. I'd like to target
the bottom page display table with links from the top nav bar table. Is this
possible?

If not, is there a solution other than utilizing frames?

darrel replied to ragbagger on 22 Jul 2004

That's how frames work. Not tables.

Not really. You need to understand what frames are. Frames are a collection
of separate HTML pages that are shown in one browser window.

If you don't use frames, you have one HTML page in one browser window.

So, what you want to do is just have your link go to a differnent page. That
different page would also have the navigation across the top so you could
click on yet another page from that page.

If you were using frames so you only had to maintain one navigation bar,
then consider using something like Server Side Includes instead.

-Darrel

Gary White replied to ragbagger on 22 Jul 2004

Another way to word that question might be, "How can I give users all
the same usability problems of frames without actually using frames?"

Gary

seb replied to Gary White on 22 Jul 2004

*frames are the only way to load a part of a web page without reloading
the entire page*.
Show-Hide Layers behavior can *simulate* the same effect, but this will
increase your page load, since the browser will load everything at once.

Gary White wrote:

Murray *TMM* replied to ragbagger on 22 Jul 2004

No.

See - you have gotten rid of the frames on the page, but you haven't removed
them from your brain. Forget about trying to emulate a framed page with a
flat one. Just build a great flat page and let the rest go!

See what I mean? Just create flat pages. Make each link open a new page.
You'll get over it after a while! 8)

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