Serious help needed with navigation in CSS/layers

[minor_threat]

Hello helpful people.

I need some help with navigation on my website. I've been using Dreamweaver MX and have (well, sort of!) a front page set up which calls my php into a particular div element on the front page.

However, what I need to know is how to link other pages into this div element so that they show up on the front page and not in a new window.

For example, my front page is located here:

http://cgi.marginwalker.plus.com/halo/index.php

It shows the main category of news (I'm using cutenews php). When I click on one of the global links, for example the 'flotsam & jetsam' link, I'd like this to load the flotsam.php page in place of the main news on the front page. (I gather once I know how to do this I will be able to strip erroneous code out of the flotsam.php page because at the moment it still shows the div elements on the right hand-side of the page.

I know how to do this navigation with frames but I still have a lot to learn about CSS, as you will no doubt tell me when you laugh at the page!

I really hope somebody can help as once I know this I can get cracking with all of the other links. Thanks in anticipation,

MT.

 

[mdnky]

Not possible (targeting links to a DIV without a page reload) without the use of an iFrame, or the iFrame buffer technique. The later is basically loading the called page into a hidden iframe, then using inner_HTML to transfer it to the DIV. Neither way is a good idea, especially for accessibility and usability.

If you want to stop the current opening of the flotsam link in a new window, remove target="div#content" from the link's html code.

 

[minor_threat]

Not possible (targeting links to a DIV without a page reload) without the use of an iFrame, or the iFrame buffer technique. The later is basically loading the called page into a hidden iframe, then using inner_HTML to transfer it to the DIV. Neither way is a good idea, especially for accessibility and usability.

If you want to stop the current opening of the flotsam link in a new window, remove target="div#content" from the link's html code.

Ah, thanks for your help mdnky. I don't think I want to start tinkering with iFrames and bodging things to fit! A re-think is in order.