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Michael Giesen
Michael Giesen

Reputation: 1

Link not opening in same page

Little back story:

Our department has a 'dashboard' that we utilize for quick links and tools that we utilize often. The guy that developed the original page found a new job - and no one else in our department knows HTML at all. I volunteered for this project figuring I could learn a bit and try something new. Not sure if I bit off more than I can chew now though.

Long story short the original page was designed literally back in the 90s so I wanted to see if I could do some aesthetic updates on top of some functional updates. I've managed to teach myself enough to understand the basics, but now that I"m trying to develop the functional updates I seem to be running into some troubles.

There is a tool that our department uses called "Associate Search" it's a company directory we use as part of our call center duties. If we put a first or last name into the search field we get that associates photo, department, phone extension, etc.

The problem I'm running into is this - when clicking the link it opens into a new tab in IE and Chrome. But I want the link to open open in the same page - with the same side bar.

I've attached screenshots to show what I'm thinking. I apologize if this is a huge newb question - but i am a 100% newb at this lol so any help would be much appreciated.

Here is what the site currently looks like:Current Page

Here is a rough idea of what I'm trying to achieve:

Wanted End Result

Current Code:

<!-- Nav -->
                <nav id="nav">
                    <ul>
                        <li class="current"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">Archives</a></li>
                        <li><a href="http://***.com/public/associatelookup.asp">Associate Search</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">Contact Me</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">Contact Me</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">Contact Me</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">Contact Me</a></li>
                    </ul>
                </nav>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1736

Answers (3)

RJN
RJN

Reputation: 93

Original

As Dryden mentioned, it sounds like you have a target="_blank" in your anchor tag.

target="_self" will open it up in the same page (this is default).

Edit

With the new information here a somethings you could do, be aware this list is by far from exhaustive but are three simple solutions to achieve your desired result.

  1. Use JQuery and show/hide the searchbar when the user clicks the link (JQuery will even do cool animations!).
  2. Use plain JavaScript and do the same thing with show/hide when a link is clicked.
  3. The simplest way would be to simply create another HTML file with the searchbar at the top and when a user clicks the link open that page in the browser window (duplicates code yes, but is simple).

Upvotes: 1

stallion
stallion

Reputation: 1987

Usually target="_blank" tag will be there which makes a click on the link open in new page.. remove that attribute in a href tag(link).

<a href="www.abc.org" target="_blank">Visit abc</a>

Opens the link in new tab

<a href="www.abc.org" >Visit xyz!</a>

Opens the link in same tab

Upvotes: 0

pedrozath
pedrozath

Reputation: 2403

Usually pages open in a new tab when the link has the target="_blank" attribute set on them. Check in your code if there is such thing, remove it and see what happens.

Upvotes: 0

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