I have an iframe element that contains a music player via SoundCloud. When a user switches tabs, it reloads. Is there a way to load the new page in the background and keep the iframe as-is?
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I'm using Rails.
pjax might be what you're looking for.
This gem allows you to load pages in the background using ajax and reloads only the divs you really need
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I have a mybb forum, and a plugin that adds a public/private chat to the bottom of the forum (it adds a div before </body>).
I would like to navigate the forum without reloading the chat.
In this question, Josh Stodola explains how to change the url.
In this question, there is a small JavaScript code to change the url.
I've also read about HTML5 iframes, but I still can't imagine how can I use it all together.
Should the chat be inside an iframe? an iframe inside the forum? should the forum be inside an iframe, and the chat into another? And those 2 iframes, inside a new page???
I'm messed up...
You should have a window containing chat and an iframe for your content. This will allow you to navigate your forum and only reload the iframe vs the top frame.
<body><iframe src="someurl"></iframe><div>Chat</div></body>
A few things to note: doing it this way will not change the address bar while you navigate and this makes users confused when they try to link to pages and it takes them to the home page or wherever they started browsing your forum.
If you want to do something more fancy checkout pjax. It will let you change urls for the whole page while only loading certain content.
I use the same iframe in multiple pages of my web application. I want to have the iframe load once on the login screen and then when brought to the next page the same exact iframe will still be loaded and not refreshed.
Is there any way to keep a part of a webpage loaded and static when directed to the next page? Some sort of static footer with the iframe would be great.
Any help is appreciated thanks.
In the case of submitting a form or using a link, you can target yet another Iframe on the page. The target will load the new page, leaving the original alone.
Hello I'm creating a site at the moment (asp.net mvc) which has a div at the bottom side of the page that works as a messenger.
I would like to find a way to make the site work like facebook's chat. In other words, when a user clicks on a link on the site to load the content on the back however the messenger to stay in tact without loading again.
Will I have to change the site so every page is loaded with an ajax request? Also, I don't want to use iframes.
The only way to have elements to stay on screen from page to page without using iframes to use ajax requests, something like load() if you're uisng jQuery.
Most sites that do it use some variation of hashbangs, so a page can be loaded by directly entering it's url, rather than necessitating a path through other pages.
To do what you propose has fundamental implications to the structure of the entire site, so if this messenger box isn't anything more than a gimmick, I wouldn't bother. I'd even go so far as to say that if you're not sure how you'd do this one thing, you shouldn't be trying to build a site around it.
Well if you dont want your chat to disappear even for a moment with full site refresh, then yes, you have to change your page to ajax loading. It is not such a pain as it looks - for example use jquery to intercept all clicks on anchors, make ajax call to their href, and replace some "all-wrapping" placeholder div with the returned content.. Not very pretty usage of ajax, but it works, and your chat stays in place.
Is there any way for a iframe nested in a div on my page not to reload when I change pages in the nav? Because when I change pages it will load the code of the page and the iframe on the previous page will be reloaded. Is there any way that I can select it and make that it won't reload when I change pages?
If you reload the entire page, the IFRAME element is getting reloaded with it. Unless you used AJAX or a second IFRAME, there is no way to have the whole page except one element reload.
My initial reaction is: "Why the hell would you want to do that, it sounds awful?"
The only way for this to work is to change the page content dynamically, with the exception of the iframe, rather than loading a new page.
But to answer your question, yes you can do it.
If you have all the page content except the iframe inside a div, lets call it #page and the iframe is at the same level in the DOM, or higher, relative to #page, you could use something like jQuery's load() function to load new content for everything inside the #page div.
However, if SEO or Accessibility matter to you at all, you shouldn't do this.
A users browser will cache a lot fo the content in the iframe anyway, so it shouldn't be too demanding to reload it.
If the contents of the IFRAME are simple enough it might be a simple case of using some light query string parameters to indicate the state the IFRAME is in to persist it across pages.
Your options also depend on any development frameworks you might be using (.NET, Ruby, etc.).
Otherwise, additional IFRAMEs seem to be the only other solution.
Is there a solution to have the background audio/music play across multiple page on a website, WITHOUT restarting on every page load.
The website currently uses a frameset, but I'm looking for an alternative.
Without making the whole site AJAX I think frames are the only way.
Here's a tutorial for making an ajax site if you need it.
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/how-to-load-in-and-animate-content-with-jquery/
It will give you separate addresses for each page.. sorta.
The only other alternative is to use site-wide AJAX. Each link would dynamically change the page content without navigating away.
Implementing this is time-consuming. Each dynamically loaded page must be stripped of headers and each link must contain a Javascript event that calls an AJAX request.