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Zach Nicodemous
Zach Nicodemous

Reputation: 9487

Modern Day Alternative to Frames?

What is the current modern alternative to frames?

I want to build the equivilant of a two frame website, with the top frame containing elements that DO NOT RELOAD, the the bottom "frame" being the content frame, which reloads as needed.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1449

Answers (3)

devdigital
devdigital

Reputation: 34349

You're describing a single page application. See Steve Sanderson's presentation and blog posts - http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2012/03/06/single-page-application-packages-and-samples/

He's using ASP.NET, but the concepts are the same for other server side technologies.

Upvotes: 0

JanLikar
JanLikar

Reputation: 1306

You can use server-side languages like PHP and ASP.Net, but if you don't want the header to reload, then AJAX is the way to go.

Using jQuery lib:

$.ajax({
      url: "foo.html",
      context: document.body,
      success: function(){
        alert("Done!");
      }
});

Upvotes: 0

Surreal Dreams
Surreal Dreams

Reputation: 26380

You can do this with AJAX. You load content dynamically as it's needed. Your content area need not even have size limits - as the user scrolls down the page you can load additional content automatically underneath what was already loaded.

Upvotes: 3

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