I've got some specific iframe elements that I want to be able to hide from the JAWS frame list (insert + f9). There are other iframes that are very important so just having a user ignore iframes isn't going to work.
Is it possible to do this?
Edit: I should mention why. There is a user option that changes whether specific types of windows open in a new window or open in an iframe on the page, even if the option is set to open in a new window the iframe is still there but the src is set to a blank html file. In that case I(or if it's set to load in the iframe but it isn't at the moment) the content of the iframe is useless to the user and I'd rather hide it from them. I'd rather not make major changes to the code if I can avoid it.
You should be able to hide it with CSS (visibility: hidden or display: none) or with aria-hidden="true".
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I want to be able to append the #web-messenger-container element to an element instead of the document.body.
I've tried using Smooch.render without setting the embedded attribute to true and it works fine on some browsers, but on others, the smooch CDN calls are cancelled. It is related with this issue: https://github.com/smooch/smooch-web/issues/666
I don't want to use embedded mode, I just want to move the Smooch button to another container. I've tried moving the iframe element with JS but it causes the iframe to reload and the Smooch window disappears.
I would say if you want to append #web-messenger-container to a different element, embedded mode is the way to do that. Without embedded mode Smooch's host JS will call render() to append the iframe on it's own so trying to call it second time will give you nothing but grief I think.
If all you want is to render your own open/close button, that's pretty straightforward. You can specify a custom button width and height of '0', and trigger Smooch.open() / Smooch.close() however you like.
For example:
https://jsfiddle.net/alavers/ve5uhjnd/
Inside of a page, there are 2 iframe buttons (external, not from the same origin as my site) next to each other that grab the focus when a keyboard user focusses to them.
I need to style them (for accessibility reasons) when the user is focussed on them. Since iframes grab the focus, the page has no control over the focus styles inside the iframes so i have made custom borders to go around the iframe when the main window loses focus. [The first iframe has an indicator, yay!]
BUT I realized when you are tabbing BETWEEN the 2 iframes (from the first to the second), the browser cannot detect that action. It is as if it skips form one iframe to the next without notifying the main window of anything. Therefore, I can never style the next iframe and unstyle the first...
I have tried everything even down to using the sandbox attribute to force same origin, which ends up causing issues with these social media iframes (i am warned in the console that they will not pass the iframe to me within a sandbox, once again... rightfully so). Anyone have any ideas?
I'd like a hyperlink on a page to open its site's landing page, in a new tab if it's not already open, or, if it is already open to have the browser switch to that tab.
My idea for this was to use the target attribute but the problem is that the tab for the landing page doesn't have a name that I can refer to.
So my question is, can a tab be named by the page loaded in it so that it can be referred to by the target attribute?
In general, no.
However, if you open a child "window" with JavaScript, you can retain a handle to that window and modify things that way.
In general, browsers control the behavior of how a link opens. Some default to open in the same viewport, others default to a new tab, and still others default to a new window entirely.
The best thing to do, however, is to not try to control this and instead allow the browser (and more importantly, the user) to decide how the clicked link should be opened. This allows your power users to control how they use your site, and at the same time keeps the behavior of the browser consistent for your users, which is a critical component in keeping your users happy.
Every solution I've seen so far for opening a new browser window uses the target property in to set it to "_blank". This is frustrating because in some browsers it only opens a new tab AND combine that with the auto-resizing behvaiour at http://www.facebook.com/connect/prompt_feed.php?&message=test, it basically mangles my browser whenever I try updating my status from my site.
How can I be sure to open a new window when a user clicks on a link?
Thanks!
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Popups are windows, they just have some features disables. You can make a popup act like a regular window by enabling these features. For example, if you open a popup with
window.open('url', 'name', 'width=500, height=500, status=1, toolbar=1, location=1, menubar=1, resizable=1');
the window will have a toolbar, a URL bar, a status bar, menus, and it will be resizable. It will the same as any other window.
Keep in mind, however, that many browsers block window.open() under some conditions, and some of them will open new tabs if you specify a lot of features. Some are weird about it too; Chrome, for example, uses scroll bars on popups by default, but if you specifically tell it to use scroll bars in a popup (using scrollbars=1), it will open in a tab instead.
So basically there is no way to be completely sure that your page will always open in a new window, because browsers all handle this stuff differently, users can change settings too. The code above is probably your best bet if you have to have a new window, but you might want to look into other options.
window.open(URL,name,specs,replace)
function newwindow()
{
myWindow=window.open('','','width=300,height=300');
myWindow.document.write("<p>This should open in a popup</p>");
myWindow.focus();
}
There is a legitimate reason for using Target=_blank that everybody has completely overlooked, and that is when a website is written as a BOOK with chapters/pages and the Table of Contents must remain intact without using the BACK button to reload the previous page (Table of Contents). This way all a surfer needs to do is close the Target Page when finished reading and they will be back to the Table of Contents.
Lucky for us that HTML5 has reinstated the Target="_blank" code, but unfortunately the "Block Popups" must be unchecked for it to work.
i want to use page break in html that means the reader cannot scroll down further until he select a link for it.
<SPAN id=title><A name=BdToc_1 external=yes><h1 id="BookTitle" align="center"><font color="#B90000"><b>Choose Subject</b></font></h1>
</A>
</SPAN>
<p>
Contents....
</p>
I want a page break before and after this. Please help me
Forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but page breaks are used to separate distinct pages. Each HTML document is a distinct "page". "select[ing] a link" traditionally loads a new page. So.... why don't you just load the next page when they click on this link?
You can specify where page breaks occur using CSS properties page-break-after, page-break-before. Of course, this works only when printing the web page. As far as I know, these properties are correctly implemented in all major browsers including IE6+. Additionally, you can also state that page break should not occur inside an element using page-break-inside.
If you want paging per se, you need to have HTML for each page and interlink these pages. Or you can fetch contents of each page using AJAX dynamically, which of course involves scripting.
It's not quite possible in HTML. You could try makeing something in Javascript, but anyone can dissable javascript.
Why would you want something like this?
You can use onscroll in javascript to control the scrolling. The onscroll event can determine the current position and there is a function to scroll up if the user is too far down.
Then, when the user clicks the link, you set a flag (scrollok=1). The onscroll checks the flag and now permits scrolling.
If you want to defeat people who have deactivated javascript, just make the content invisible until they click using stylesheets: visibility=none.
Then, when they click the link, you enable scrolling via the flag, and make the content visible.
If you don't know how to do these things, just leave a comment and I can be more precise.