Problems with iframe tag

[Dan Johnson]

Hello all,

I have been playing with the GNU banner exchange package, called banex,
found at http://www.sourceforge.com/projects/banex . An example of it in
action can be found at http://chebucto.ns.ca/~ab496/ .

The problem is that an iframe tag is used to position the banner on the
hosting page. If the banner is clicked then the page which is linked
from the banner then appears in the iframe area instead of a full page.
At first I thought that it was because it was using a META tag to
redirect the user by a 'refresh'; which is non-W3C compliant. That has
been changed. I now have it using :

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Locatio n: $where");
exit();

The redirected page is still appearing in the original iframe defined
area, however. Could anyone provide means by which the old iframe
settings can be cleared to display the banner linked page outside the
confines of the defined iframe?

Thanks in advance!

[Neal]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:24:54 -0300, Dan Johnson <bo****@hfx.eas tlink.ca>
wrote:

The problem is that an iframe tag is used to position the banner on the
hosting page.

That's not smart. Why not use an include? SSI or PHP?

[Pierre Goiffon]

"Dan Johnson" <bo****@hfx.eas tlink.ca> a écrit dans le message de
news:41******** ****@hfx.eastli nk.ca

The problem is that an iframe tag is used to position the banner on
the hosting page. If the banner is clicked then the page which is
linked from the banner then appears in the iframe area instead of a
full page.

You should use the target attribute in the link. For exemple :

<a href="..." target="_blank" >

Please see :
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present...ml#adef-target

[Dan Johnson]

Pierre Goiffon wrote:

"Dan Johnson" <bo****@hfx.eas tlink.ca> a écrit dans le message de
news:41******* *****@hfx.eastl ink.ca

The problem is that an iframe tag is used to position the banner on
the hosting page. If the banner is clicked then the page which is
linked from the banner then appears in the iframe area instead of a
full page.

You should use the target attribute in the link. For exemple :

<a href="..." target="_blank" >

Please see :
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present...ml#adef-target

Thanks, both Pierre, and Neal, for the suggestions. Due to time
restraints a, quick, javascript fix was employed. The iframe tag, in
question, had the following javascript inserted just before the iframe
tag.

if (top.location != self.location)
{
top.location = self.location
}

The opening and closing script tags are not included above.

Hopefully this issue can be revisited; to try out your suggestions; at a
later date.

Regards,

Dan