little help please

[Outofmymindyo]

I'm using tables to put my sliced images back together consisting of my layout, and I want to have the links that people click on open inside a table cell, is there any way to do this?

[orangehairedboy]

This is definatly an HTML question...not a PHP question...but I happen to know this one...

The answer to this question is yes and no. If basically you want to divide your screen into different areas, you might want to look into frames...but frames are no longer stylish...

Next, it depends what you want to show in each cell. Is it another picture? In which case you could change it with Javascript. If it's text or something web-page-ish, then I would look at the HTML tags IFRAME and OBJECT.

I recommend that you look at these sites:

• http://javascript.internet.com

• http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/

[Outofmymindyo]

Yeah that's the problem. I don't want to use iframes because of the browser incompatibility issues, and with regular frames, my layout doesn't come together completely (thus leaving open spaces between images that should be flush)

[orangehairedboy]

Then use the <OBJECT> tag. You can use Javascript to change the page that it displays:

<object name="mypage" width=500 height=400 data="main.html" type="text/html" standby="Loading...">This website requires the latest version of your brower. Please upgrade.</object>

Lewis

[Outofmymindyo]

Where does the object tag get placed? Inside the header tag? If not, I'll find out in a minute, I'm gonna go place it there.

[Outofmymindyo]

Ok, I got it to load, but even if I change the height, I can only change it so much, otherwise it messes the table up. If I make it more than an inch short of where it's supposed to be it messes the table up, which means I still have empty space between the object and the bottom of the space the object is going in. Any way to change this? And I'm terribly stupid or something because I can't figure out how to get the pages I want to load into that object.

[orangehairedboy]

To be honest, it sounds like you're trying to do something rather complex...which is better suited to something else. Could you please describe what exactly you are trying to accomplish? Any examples would be appreciated.

Lewis

[Outofmymindyo]

Ok, I have a left hand menu on my layout. You can see the layout here

http://www.clan-collective.net/layout6.gif

I am trying to have ALL information/text whatever else load into the center between the two bars (one at the top of the space and one at the bottom). Having used fireworks for mouseOver images, Fireworks spit some HTML out at me in the form of a table to get the pieces of the layout back together. I would like for the content of whatever link has been clicked to load into this center table.

[orangehairedboy]

OK...here's something that works:

<script language="javascript">
function changewindow (page) {
document.mywindow.innerHTML='<iframe src="' & page & '" width=540 height=360 name="window" frameborder=1></iframe>';
}
</script>
<a href="javascript:changewindow('games.php');">Click Here for Games</a>
<div id="mywindow">Welcome!</div>

And so on...you get the idea...Basically, when you click the link, the javascript changes whatever is inside the <div></div> tags...in this case to a page called games.php which is in an IFRAME.

Lewis