Load iframe once for multiple html pages - html

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.

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How to keep content on page on new page load

I want to know, how we can do the page reload but while loading the page we keep some conten on page visiable.
In real senario, google or facebook load new page or chages some part of the page(not using the ajax) but there header or footer are not get change means stick to page and it visible through-out the process to page load start and end.
Can anyone tell me how it has to be done?
well, your examples don't reload page. They load new content with AJAX, so while loading you can execute your scipts and display current content. After you can append new blocks to page and change url using HTML5 History API.

Navigate to new page in site, keep an element loaded?

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?
Edit
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

how can I navigate to a new page without reloading part of the current page?

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.

Is there any way to request a page without displaying it?

If you link to something downloadable with a simple <a href, the user will download the file while staying on the current page. You can get this behavior with files that the browser has no plugin for (like .bin), or by sending a content-disposition header to force downloading.
Is there any method or header which keeps the user on the current page while still requesting the page? The idea is that the user clicks a link, the request is made, but the page doesn't change—like when downloading a file.
This could be done with an iframe I guess, which is not really pretty and makes another request when loading the page. Javascript is another obvious answer, but that's actually the reason for asking this question: compatibility with JS-less clients.
A form with the method set to HEAD is another ugly solution, but doesn't work anyway. Chromium ignores the method and simply performs a GET request...
Anymore ideas?
You could place an iframe on your page that is hidden. Then, give that iframe and id.
Use this id as the target of a link to the file you want to pull down.
I've created a demo at http://jsfiddle.net/dancrumb/N87nL/ to show you how this would work. Just style the iframe as being invisible and you're good to go
The page will load in the iframe, you'll stay on your page, it doesn't require JS. Oh boy!
Note that the iFrame doesn't have an initial value for src, so no request is made on page load.

Page url links to pages internal frame

I have a personal website, which I have made (to the best of my ability) without a template. I am not very experience in HTML so am not entirely sure if this is bad practice or not, but here is my issue.
My website consists of a frameset, which has 3 frames. Two do not change (banner and nav panel), and the other is content. The way I display my content in the main frame is through an iframe. Here's where the trouble comes. I have suggested my website to the crawler, and it crawls all the pages for content, of course. When I click on one of my links suggested by google (say, a project), the browser loads that individual .html file, without any of the rest of my frames. In other words, it does not link to the page through my index.html which sets up the formatting and page frames, but simply loads the html as a stand-alone page.
Is there a way I can avoid this, so that if a link for my website is clicked from an external link (not from my domain), the page first loads my index.html, and then the page of interest, so that it appears as if it were accessed normally from my index? I am not sure whether I should find a new way of displaying my content in the main frame so that it avoids iframes, or just need a simple script to redirect the user.
Not sure if it's useful but I've attached a photo of my page just to better explain what the frame layout is that I am working with.
Many thanks!!!
iFrames are definitely not the route to take when you are displaying consistent content... Which from what appears to be the Navigation, Header, and of course, the Content. Of course there will be an issue when a "Search Engine Spider" crawls your page... From my understanding, seeing as you are calling "content" from another page, the spider will crawl that page but will not crawl the index.html page we are currently viewing. When a "Spider" crawls a page it looks for STATIC HTML Tags/Content/Keywords/etc, and seeing as you are calling all of your content from other pages the "Spider" will treat that content as being on another page as well.
You want me recommendation? Avoid using an iFrame at all times. The point of an iFrame is to display content from another location (external), and or display static content on a page without having to scroll the current page you are viewing the iFrame on.
It is bad practice to use an iFrame, I would suggest using DIVs. Within these DIVs you may place content, images, links... Virtually anything you want, with all of the benefits of having people view your website, along with Search Engine Spiders.
I hope this helps!
Thanks,
Aaron
iFrames are a bad choice. AJAX is VERY simple these days. Just replace the big iFrame with a Div, and AJAX a page, putting the contents into that Div.
Replace your anchors with tags, and replace href with name, like so:
<div name='main.html' class='link' />
You need a div with the id 'loadHere':
Then include jQuery (it's pretty easy, google it) and at the end of your HTML put this:
$('.link').click(function(){
$.post(this.name,function(dat){
$('#loadHere').html(dat); }); });