Question About Tables

pcxgamer · #1 15-Nov-2003, 03:44

How can I open new windows inside tables? I'm working on a site that I would like to be able to open a new window much like you do with frames. But was wondering if the same thing can be done with tables?

JdS · #2 15-Nov-2003, 04:10

Open new windows inside tables? I am confused... If there's a sample web page out there with this feature, it will be easier for us to understand.

pcxgamer · #3 15-Nov-2003, 05:15

I'm not sure. Let me see if I can explain it better you know how you can have two frames. You click on a link in one frame and it open up in the other frame. If you still need more let me know and I'll try and throw up an example using frames.

JdS · #4 15-Nov-2003, 07:22

I think I get it now....

You just do what you normally do with opening the page in a frame usually, e.g.:

HTML Code:


<a href="some_other_page.html" target="thenameoftheframe">Some other thingy</a>

Only difference is that instead of a frame(set) page, you would use an <iframe> tag to show the 'window' inside a table cell for instance. The rest is the same... i.e. you set up the 'window' in the cell by naming the <iframe> tag:

HTML Code:


<td><iframe src="main.html" name="the_name_of_the_iframe"></iframe></td>
<!-- .... when you link, you just add the <a> tags like this-->
<a href="something_else.html" target="the_name_of_the_iframe">Something Else</a>

Here are some existing [gid=http://www.desilva.biz/forum/viewtopic1034.php]examples of iframes[/gid] that you can review.

If that isn't it... let us know of course

pcxgamer · #5 16-Nov-2003, 03:50

Thanks. Not exactly what I was looking for I've used I frames before but I thought that they weren't good for search engines. what will iframes do to my site as far as search engines are concerned?

Thanks again

JdS · #6 16-Nov-2003, 08:22

Yeah PCX, I kinda figured out that that couldn't be it!

Are <iframe>s good for Search Engine bots? I can't say for sure... but my bet is that it's bad.

BobbyDouglas · #7 16-Nov-2003, 14:40

They are very bad for search engines. First off, you have make sure that the iframe is not included in the search engines. Secondly, your page will lose a lot of Rank in SE if you use an iframe, simply because the information on the iframe does not get include in the content on the actual page. This is because SE read the source of your site, and not what you see.

pcxgamer · #8 20-Nov-2003, 23:07

Thanks guys. I had though of something I must not have been think then I posted this. The page I'm working on is for my personal Intranet at home. So the search engines won't matter. But I still needed that question answered. Oh well one of those days I guess.

Thanks

BobbyDouglas · #9 21-Nov-2003, 07:10

I think JdS already answered it. If not, provide some more information about the problem and I will try to help.

pcxgamer · #10 21-Nov-2003, 12:37

Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean that I still need the question answered I was just saying the reason I was trying to find out about the table was because I didn't think that frames were good for the search engines but the page that I needed this for isn't even for the Internet I just felt kind of dumb that I didn't think about that before. So your guys already answered my question I was just pointing out my stupidly.

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