[NEED HELP] iFrame

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Originally Posted by s-p-n

Really? Please, do tell more.

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(correct me if i'm wrong) but he is just trying to change static content?

if you're just swapping static content, its not what is referred to as AJAX. AJAX is specifically requesting data from the server (things like submitting a form, querying a database etc) and usually uses a separate file as a handler to do so.

At least this was my understanding of the difference?

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Originally Posted by Zen

(correct me if i'm wrong) but he is just trying to change static content?

if you're just swapping static content, its not what is referred to as AJAX. AJAX is specifically requesting data from the server (things like submitting a form, querying a database etc) and usually uses a separate file as a handler to do so.

At least this was my understanding of the difference?

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Not exactly, AJAX is Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. You can use it to request xHTML (or HTML, or even a text document.. The name isn't very good because it's not even limited to XML, just content that can go inside an xHTML document.) It requests data from some server (not necessarily the one hosting the AJAX script). That's the only "server-side" logic AJAX requires. You don't even really need an HTTP server.. so yeh.. just a third party file that can be requested under the hypertext protocol.

OP wants to request the content from main web-pages on the site through an iFrame. Someone mentioned they got it working with AJAX. For SEO reasons, the content isn't going to be spidered in a desired way. (See my most previous post)

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Originally Posted by MarkGilmour

Hi there, i am setting up my first website. I am trying to make iframes so that when i got to the homepage - index.html, it shows the content that i want in a specific area, and when i click on say, about us, the homepage content changes to the about us content. I think this is a really basic thing to do, but i couldnt find any decent tutorials on the web. Thankyou for your support.

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If the content for "about us" was inside the host page (nested in a hidden element or in the JavaScript), and no request was made to another file via JavaScript, then it's not ajax. The moment you make a request to a file through JavaScript, you're using AJAX. It's really not as complicated as it's made out to be..

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Originally Posted by s-p-n

Not exactly, AJAX is Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. You can use it to request xHTML (or HTML, or even a text document.. The name isn't very good because it's not even limited to XML, just content that can go inside an xHTML document.) It requests data from some server (not necessarily the one hosting the AJAX script). That's the only "server-side" logic AJAX requires. You don't even really need an HTTP server.. so yeh.. just a third party file that can be requested under the hypertext protocol.

OP wants to request the content from main web-pages on the site through an iFrame. Someone mentioned they got it working with AJAX. For SEO reasons, the content isn't going to be spidered in a desired way. (See my most previous post)



If the content for "about us" was inside the host page (nested in a hidden element or in the JavaScript), and no request was made to another file via JavaScript, then it's not ajax. The moment you make a request to a file through JavaScript, you're using AJAX. It's really not as complicated as it's made out to be..

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Well thanks for explaining that :)