3.4 How to transit to another web page/application?
- Which element can be used to transit to another web page/application?
- <a>
- <form>
- <iframe>
- Read all in HTML Iframes.
- For what do you use iframes?
- Study carefully 'Iframe - Target for a Link' in the above web page.
- Study carefully all in Post Data to an iframe.
We will discuss about it later in more detail.
- Iframe - target for a <form>
- How can you display a linked page into an iframe in the same window?
The target attribute with the value of the name of an iframe
- How can you display the result from a form into an iframe in the same window?
The target attribute with the value of the name of an iframe
- Note that the attribute, id, is usually used to access HTML elements from JS codes.
The attribute, name, is usually used to connect HTML elements from other elements.
- Trial 1. Let's try to display cs.tru.ca/~mlee/comp3540 in an iframe.
- The proper URL for cs.tru.ca in the above example?
[[protocol:]//domain_name_or_IP_address[:port_number]/]path_of_resource
You may see What is a URL?.
- [Can you use JavaScript to transit to another web page/application?]
- Learning outcomes
- How to transit to another web page/application using HTML elements and JavaScript code.