Front Page Hyperlinks and Tables

[Guest]

I would like to have a hyperlink from a bar on the main page to open in a
specific cell in a table on the main page. I knew how to do it a long time
ago, but have forgotten. I don't want to use frames either. Thanks

 

[Steve Easton]

You can do it with Bookmarks. Highlight some text further down the page, make it a bookmark and
then link to the bookmark.

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[Guest]

I may not have explained myself to clearly, or maybe I do not understand the
concept. I want to be able to open other pages in my web in certain cells on
my index page based on what selection you make from the java dropdown menu on
that page. Very similar to setting target_frame when creating a hyperlink,
but with tables. I hope that gets me closer. Thanks

 

[Guest]

the web page itself is at www.emmanuelfwbchurch.org

I would like the drop down buttons to open up other htm's in the large cell
below them. Just more info for thought.

 

[Trevor L.]

MPressgrove,

I think I understand what you want, and that is that you want to click on a
drop-down menu item at the top of the page and then open another page in a
certain position on the same page.

I have done a similar thing on my site, except that I set up the site as
frames - a top heading, a side menu and a main section. Clicking on one of
the menu items executes a hyperlink which opens a new page in the main
section.
Here is a typical menu item:
<a href="about.html" target="index_main">
<img src="images/thumbnails/xxxx.gif" alt="">
About<br>
Us</a>

But frames are not recommended.

Would using target ="#bookmark" work, where #bookmark is the name of a tag,
say a <div>, on the same page?
I don't know, others may
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[Murray]

There is not a good way to do this. The problem is that different pages
will require different dimensions in the 'container'.

Just link from one page to the next like ~100% of the web does, and you'll
be fine.

 

[Trevor L.]

Murray,

I was wondering whether the code you sent me for a slideshow would apply
here.

If the container were to be the whole of the page apart from the heading and
side menu, couldn't you place HTML in that container?

I am still learning, so I don't know whether I am suggesting something
stupid

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[Murray]

At first blush you might think it would, but there are two problems -

1. For the Set Text behavior, there are four potential targets - frame,
layer, text field, or status bar. If using frames (ew, I feel so dirty), it
would be a good solution. But who wants to use frames? 8) If there were a
layer in the table cell you could use it, but putting absolutely positioned
elements into table cells is the HTML equivalent of bamboo shoots under
fingernails. Who wants to do that?

2. You *could* put a relatively positioned div into the table cell, and
then put a layer into that relatively positioned div, thereby avoiding all
the problems mentioned above, and then target that layer with the Set Text
behavior. But then you'd have the problem of a massive and inexorable
inflation of the weight of your page's code based on a) the server encoding
of the HTML content you would add to the behavior panels, and b) the
downright silly "whole website in a single page" notion that this kind of
thinking always leads to.

See what I mean?