iFrames

[Kiddwizz]

I have a site where the initial page is always the same, and an iframe as the main content is the only thing that changes. This works great despite how much people hate iframes and im begining to know why. The only problem is if someone wants to reach a page that is intented to be shown in the ifram area, and they type in that address eg: myname.com/second_iframe_page.html which directly points to the page that should be viewed only with the rest of the content surrounding it. Is there something i can add to the iframe pages that will sense if that page is being viewed raw so that it refreshes with the content around it? or a simple way of solving this problem? i know taking my page to the PHP dynamics will solve this, but i have too many pages and too much work to turn around and redo it all.

to make this all short, if you dont want people accessing a page intended only to be viewed as a iframe, is there a solution?

[AdamGundry]

You've discovered one of the major problems with [i]frames. As a workaround, you _must_ add a link to the frameset from each individual page, and you could use a JavaScript snippet like this (http://www.codelifter.com/main/javascript/openinframeset1.html) to automate it for users with JS enabled.

A better solution is to redesign to avoid the [i]frames.

Adam

[PeOfEo]

I suggest not using iframes as well. But you could use a query string to identify which page will be put in the frame to start with.