How do we anchor to top of page on page load?

Question

HI! I use iframes and when a user clicks a link in the middle
of a page it
loads the new child iframe in the iframe BUT the new page is
at the same
vertical spot as the previous page. I want the page to be
loaded at the top
so the user can see the see it at the beginning.
I thought of adding an anchor to the link but this would put
the child page
at the top but also hide the top of the main parent. so is
there way of
loading the child page and at the same time make the parent
page stay at the
top?'
Paul

Answer 1

darrel wrote:
>> Lets say you have a normal page ( without Iframes )
and at the bottom of
>> the page you have a link. now, if you click on that
link the page will
>> load and you will now be at the top of that page,
right! now. in my case
>> however you will not be at the top, you will be in
fact at the bottom of
>> the new page.
>
> What do you mean by 'new page'?
>
> If you mean the link you are clicking on ONLY loads a
new page within the
> iFrame, then this is perfectly normal. You are not
loading a new page
> within the browser--you're staying on the same page, as
such, nothing
> should change with the parent page...only the iFrame.
>
>> so I figure perhapes a function that works with an
onload event.
>
> You could probably use javascript. Have the onClick
event handle that. I
> don't know what syntax to use off the top of my head,
though.
>
> That said, why are you using an iFrame? They're often
used for wrong
> reasons. I bet we can figure out a better solution for
you without iframes
> at all.
>
> -Darrel
Hi! I use iframes to load templates that are brought in by
java script. My
design has a top flash animation with static expandable
images on both sides
and iframes are used on one side to display the templates and
the other side
is text. The Parent does not get reloaded because I dont want
the flash
animation to be reloaded as it take a few seconds to load. so
by using
iframes I only need to load the flash ani once. and the other
pages that
make up the larger part of the page are loaded into the
iframe.
Now that I think of it, I dont think the unload event in the
body would work
because this means that body would have to be reloaded. I
would have to
trigger it another way. so I would have to trigger it from
either inside
childpage that gets loaded or from the link itself. hmmm, do
you have any
ideas?
Paul