Another Iframe Problem

[mdray00]

hi guys dont know if any1 can help me I have looked everywhere but cant seem to find the answer.

I have a site that is based on the shopping cart cubecart.

I have an iframe on 1 of the pages which displays certain search results.

however when i click of the items that are in the iframe they load up inside the iframe and i need them to load in the main window. I have read that I need to use the target="_top" of the links but since they are all compiled using php code im not sure how to do this.

Is there a way of just telling the iframe that any links inside it should be opened in the "_top" ?

Thanks guys

[djr33]

In the head section, I believe you should be able to use this tag:
<base target="_top">

[Edit: Corrected from 'href' to 'target'.)

[mdray00]

No i still loads in the iframe not in the main window?

I added

<base href=www.healthier-options.com/sports/"_top">

to the head section on the page that loads in the iframe is that correct?

[djr33]

No....

Just exactly what I had.

_top is the top level of the current page, relative, so you don't need to specify a URL.
And even if there were a need to have a URL, it would go in the quotes.
For html, you always need <tag property="value">, not <tag property=value>, or some version of that.

[mdray00]

http://www.healthier-options.com/sports/index.php?act=viewDoc&docId=64

this is the page you can see the iframe at the bottom.

an example of the link in the frame is

http://www.healthier-options.com/sports/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=30

but if I do what u sugested (<base href="_top">)

then the links become (http://_top/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=30)

even then i only opens in the iframe and just says page cannot be displayed

[djr33]

Oh!

Sorry about that. You're right.

It should be <base target="_top">

I was thinking of the wrong property. But, hey, if you need to specify a base href, now you know :p

[mdray00]

sorry its still not workin. do i put this in the page that contains the iframe of the page that loads in the iframe? the <base target="_top"> means that all the links are now back to normal but they still only load inside the iframe?

Am I doin sumthing stupid?

[mdray00]

sorry mate this is very strange.

I put just a normal <a href link n the page and when u click it it opens in the top window. However all the other links dont. Is it to do with them being complied through php rather than being a normal link?

[djr33]

The base tag sets a default for the page.

target="_self" on those links is overriding the base target.

[mdray00]

yea i had a look in the source and your right they all have a target="_self" command on every link.

But I dont know where the link is complied from so I cant turn the ="-self" to ="-top"

[djr33]

I can't really help you there, but you should be able to find the source somewhere within the PHP code.

By the way, here's a list of targets, just to give you an idea:
_top -- outermost frame
_self -- same page
_blank -- new window
_parent -- next outer frame, like _top, but only one level
framename -- it will open in that frame
windowname -- it will open in that window