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Opening Links in a New window, etc. Often people enjoy the ability to make a link open up in a new window. This is so perhaps you can send someone to a site and have them on your site still, or make the image open in a new window and not have to have the person reloading the main gallery page all the time.This is useful if you want the site to remain open while you send them to your forums... or something of the sort. So lets move onto the code. To do this we need our link code. <a href="http://www.mistyicedesigns.com">mistyicedesigns.com</a> Inside this link code we're now going to add target=_new So the code should now look like this: <a href="http://www.mistyicedesigns.com" target=_new>mistyicedesigns.com</a> And the result would be this (Click the link to view a demo) mistyicedesigns.com Nex we'll work on opening the link in the same window but outside of the frames. The last thing you want is for your link to be contained inside the frames, especially if you're linking to an outside site. So to start we'll take our link code: <a href="http://www.mistyicedesigns.com">mistyicedesigns.com</a> Inside this link code we're now going to add target=_parent So the code should now look like this: <a href="http://www.mistyicedesigns.com" target=_parent>mistyicedesigns.com</a> And the result would be this (Click the link to view a demo... though technically I have no frames, so it'll open regularly anyway.) mistyicedesigns.com Next we want to learn how to open the link inside the target frame. So if we've made a frame and we want our links to open into that frame we need to first look to our frame properties. So when you make your frames (Which is a later lesson but We'll just touch on it for a moment.) You'll have a property called "Name" So this propert is where we give the frame a name Like this: Name="Main" often you name your frame after what it's going to be. So commonly there is Main, Links, Title, bottom, right, left, Center To make a link open inside a frame we need to once again take our link code: <a href="http://www.mistyicedesigns.com">mistyicedesigns.com</a> The name of our frame is going to be "Main." So, Inside this link code we're now going to add target="Main" So the code should now look like this: <a href="http://www.mistyicedesigns.com" target="Main">mistyicedesigns.com</a> We can't make a real demo of this, but basically the result is that your link will open up inside the target frame. |
