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How to make links open in cells (targeting different content in different cells)

Here is a question for all those super webdesigners. I have a page that has 3 columns., (25%, 50%, 25%) named table left, middle, right. What I need to do is have all my main navigation on the left table...home, about us, contact us, programs.

Have the content in the middle table.

Have related links in the right table.

Now, with out using frames, iframes is there a way I can....

When click on the link in the left table the content related to that link loads in the middle and links related to this page loads in the right table. At the same time the page stays static and the main navigation (left) stays the same. I need the effect of frames without using them. I dont want to have a template and reload a new page over and over. Thank you everyone that can help!

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hmm...im no web design guru but i would say just use layers, and have it invisible until the link is clicked...

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not that i know of.

i mean theoretically you could load the code for the entire page into the div using thediv.innerHTML, do that for the right column, repeating that whole process for each link on the left, but it sounds like iframes would be a whole whole lot easier.

you could use some kind of server side includes to make the job easier if you just wanted to keep the same layout look and stay web compliant, but otherwise i don't think you have many options. :confused: sorry i couldn't help more.

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Jon Culver Chia Pets

I was thinking the same thing. Using PHP include files. But the only road block with that is I get the links on the left (created by the include files) but I can not get the onclick to behave the way I want. I want, when clicked the content to load in the middle table and related links to appear in the right table. Is there a way I can have based on the link clicked have include files load in the middle, and right tables?

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if i follow you correctly..

have individual pages for each table. then you can include that code for say, the right table, onto all of the pages that need them, and wouldn't require a great deal of coding.

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Jon Culver Chia Pets

I Well actually they don't need to be actual pages. Maybe the include files could be tables that contain information or links. i just want to have a website where it will have 3 columns . Column 1 will have all the navigation links (Tree structure) . Middle column will have information(where the content should load). The 3rd column should have all the links that are related to the content and the link that was clicked in the first column. So, what should happen is when I click on one of the link in the left nav column. a include file should load in the middle column and a related link include file should load in the last column. now, these include files could be entire php pages or just a table.

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You could use div tags as scrollers and when you link you're actually only switching the content of that area by switching div tag names.
Little javascript / css to do that... Should work

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Would you be kind enough to give me an example or point me to a good resource site that would have that! Thanx

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