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Erwin Blonk

I'm a systemadministrator forever trying to break into at least a beginners' level of programming and sometimes run into the simplest of problems (i.e. I think they are simple and that I just can't find the solution).

Working on a very simple website, I'm trying to figure out how to place a page within a page. On the side I have links to different html pages (photo albums). The idea is that that album appears in the middle of the page, comparable to, say, webmail, where the foldernames are to the left of the page and the folder clicked on appears to the left of that.

My biggest problem is that I can't search for a how-to because I don't know how you would call it (yes, it is that bad). Can anyone help me out, so I can take it from there?

Erwin Blonk

Maybe I'm completely wrong but are masterpages or nested pages what I'm looking for?

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

In ASP.NET you could indeed use master pages for this. If you're using plain HTML you would have to repeat the common HTML on each page, or use frames (which is somewhat frowned upon these days, but can still be a valid approach in some circumstances).

Erwin Blonk

In reply to Sven Groot

#Sep 30th @ 3:25 AM

I really want to try and use ASP.NET for it. The simplicity of it makes HTML or frames just as good an option (seeing my meager skill level about 100 times to finish as fast too) but I see this as a kind of Hello World project. Also, in time, I want to take it a bit further and I think that using plain HTML from the get-go will eventually bite me in the ar... behind.

So, masterpage it is Smiley

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to Erwin Blonk

#Sep 30th @ 4:16 AM

Note that you don't need an iframe to make a "scrollable" area in a web-page: any element with overflow: scroll; defined and a set size will behave that way.