links in an IFRAME src page

**Force Flow** · Jun 27, 2006 10:01

If you're using an IFRAME on a page that loads a seperate src page, any links you click on in the IFRAME will load in the IFRAME. How can you get it so that any links you click on will open in the current browser window?

Here's the page I'm working with:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
function loadNewFrame(newAddress){

document.getElementById('myframe').src = newAddress;

}
//-->
</script>
</head>

<body>
<p><a href="#" onclick="loadNewFrame('http://google.com');">page1</a></p>
<p><a href="#" onclick="loadNewFrame('http://sitepoint.com');">page2</a></p>
<p>
  <iframe name="myframe" id="myframe" width="90%" height="300px" frameborder="0px" src="http://yahoo.com/"></iframe>
</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</body>
</html>

**chris_fuel** · Jun 27, 2006 10:12

Hi,

If you have control over the code inside the iframe, then you can use target="_top" in your links. This will load the document in the topmost frame, which is either the parent frame of the document, or the document itself.

**Force Flow** · Jun 27, 2006 10:31

Ok, that worked for IE6 and Firefox 1.5, but not Opera 9.

Is there something along those lines that would work with opera?

**chris_fuel** · Jun 27, 2006 10:37

To be honest I'm not sure why that doesn't work in opera, as it's a standard attribute

**Force Flow** · Jun 27, 2006 11:05

ok, that's odd.

Just for the heck of it, I tried it in safari and it worked. Usually safari is the odd-ball one.

**chris_fuel** · Jun 27, 2006 11:07

Like I said, it's a W3 standard, I call bug

.

**Force Flow** · Jun 27, 2006 11:24

ah ah...found the problem.

The page that was being linked to isn't really coded well. I started from scratch and threw up a a temporary test page and it worked fine like in the other browsers.

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