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Wrapture
12-14-2003, 11:07 AM
Goal: I'm creating personal web pages that consist of stories followed by recipes. I want to present menus that let users view either the story and its related recipes as part of a single page, or to view a simple index of recipes without the stories.

For ease of maintenance, I thought I would store the stories and recipes (which are created as MS Word docs) as individual html pages. and concatenate them as required.

To make it cheaper to deploy, I thought I'd try to create a completely client-side solution using html rather than ASP, .NET, etc.

I thought it would be easy(?) to find a client-side script that would simply pop a web page with the story content into a named frame, insert some html that would maybe draw a border or insert a header, etc., and then add/concatenate the html pages for the relevant recipes. However, thus far, no luck.

So, here's my Question:
Is there a client-side solution for this, and if so, could you point me at the appropriate methods?

Any other advice on the subject will be read with interest & appreciated.

Thanks,

Wrapture

ray326
12-14-2003, 12:43 PM
You could display the stories in an iframe that is in a div that you could selectively hide or show. You could also simply use two different pages, one with the iframe and one without. You might also want to check out the Inner Browsing article on http://devedge.netscape.com. It has ideas for moving content from hidden iframes into visible divs, creating a very rich user interface for pages "assembled" on the client.