Embed an html page into a placeholder?

[John]

Hi all,

My web app uses 3 different placeholders on one page and dynamically load
usercontrols into them. That's all fine but now I have two situations which
puzzle me:

1. I have a sub-folder of html pages from my site and I need to show one of
these pages at a time within a specific placeholder on my main page. How do
I go about doing this?

2. I have a dll which creates a server-side spreadsheet and I also need to
load this spreadsheet into a placeholder. How do I do this?

Any help forth-coming would be really appreciated.

Regards
John.

[Martin Dechev]

Hi, John,

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1. I have a sub-folder of html pages from my site and I need to show one of these pages at a time within a specific placeholder on my main page. How do I go about doing this?
You can use an iframe control. Just add runat="server" and an id attributes.
Declare it as System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl in the page
class. You can set the src, width, height, etc properties from the page
class like this:

[C#]
iframe1.Attributes["src"] = "the src";
[VB.NET]
iframe1.Attributes("src") = "the src"
2. I have a dll which creates a server-side spreadsheet and I also need to
load this spreadsheet into a placeholder. How do I do this?

I'm only guessing as I don't know what this "server-side spreadsheet" looks
like. Create a usercontrol that will take this "spreadsheet" as parameter
and display the data contained in it somehow as html.

Greetings
Martin