Help targeting a link to iframe using javascript

Discussion in 'JavaScript' started by allofcraigs, Dec 27, 2009.

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  1. #1
    Hi-

    I'm a javascript retard, and i don't know if what I'm about to say even makes sense.

    I need to target something like this:

    <a href="javascript:functionname('value')">the link</a>

    to an iframe:

    <iframe src="#" name="iframe"></iframe>

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    Any ideas? Thanks in advance
     
    allofcraigs, Dec 27, 2009 IP
  2. s_ruben

    s_ruben Active Member

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    If I understood well what you wanted, so this is that you want

    
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
  <title>Iframe link</title>
</head>

<body>

<p>
    <a href="#" onclick="javascript:document.getElementById('iframe').src = 'http://rubensargsyan.wordpress.com';">Link</a>
</p>

<iframe src="http://rubensargsyan.com" name="iframe" id="iframe" width="800" height="600"></iframe>

</body>

</html>
    Code (markup):
     
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  3. allofcraigs

    allofcraigs Peon

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    Hi-

    No, it needs to be formatted like this:

    <a href="javascript:setContext('context')">link text</a>

    needs to target the iframe by name, not src - as follows:

    <iframe name="iframe"></iframe>

    I tried this:

    <a target="iframe" href="javascript:setContext('context')">link text</a>

    Of course, it didn't work, unfortunately.
     
    allofcraigs, Dec 27, 2009 IP