Step Carousel Viewer links into iframe

[mastubbs]

1) Script Title: Step Carousel Viewer v1.6.1

2) Script URL (on DD): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...epcarousel.htm

3) Describe problem:

Hi guys

I have two questions was wondering if anyone could help me out? The 1st i guess is easy but im a bit of a js newb. I want to make it so on clicking images from the carousel, pages load into an iframe (because i want to use the script as a sort of menu) . I have read the docs but no joy. I have tried

<div class="panel">
<a href="http://othersite.com" target="prdfrm2"><img src="http://mysite.com/imgs/3.jpg" /></a></div>

but the othersite.com loads into a new window not into the iframe prdfrm2. Any ideas?

The second question: is it poss to have a description under each image in a text box?

Thanks for any replies.

Matt

[jscheuer1]

Two possible reasons why that isn't working:

1. The script is using the target attribute for something else.
   
2. You have no iframe with a name attribute set to 'prdfrm2'.

Please post a link to the page on your site that contains the problematic code so we can check it out.

[mastubbs]

Hi John,

Thanks for your reply. the page URL is http://cart3.jaspers-sensations.com/.../testpage.html

Thanks for your help

Matt

[jscheuer1]

It was 2:

You have no iframe with a name attribute set to 'prdfrm2'.

From your source code:

<iframe id="prdfrm2" src="http://cart3.jaspers-sensations.com/stage/page2.html" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" style="overflow:visible; width:100%; display:none"></iframe>

You have an id attribute set to 'prdfrm2', but no name attribute, try this:

<iframe name="prdfrm2" id="prdfrm2" src="http://cart3.jaspers-sensations.com/stage/page2.html" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" style="overflow:visible; width:100%; display:none"></iframe>

Note: Some browsers will still work with targeting a link to an id of an iframe, but the standard method was for many years the name attribute, and some other browsers (notably IE) still require it.

[mastubbs]

legend thankyou

[jscheuer1]

In all the 'excitement' I forgot to answer your other question:

1) Script Title: Step Carousel Viewer v1.6.1

2) Script URL (on DD): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...epcarousel.htm . . .

The second question: is it poss to have a description under each image in a text box?

That's easy, where you have like:

<div id="mygallery" class="stepcarousel">
<div class="belt">

<div class="panel">
<img src="http://i30.tinypic.com/531q3n.jpg" />
</div>

You can put whatever you want in there, so for a text box, you could have:

<div id="mygallery" class="stepcarousel">
<div class="belt">

<div class="panel">
<img src="http://i30.tinypic.com/531q3n.jpg" />
<br><input type="text" value="My Caption">
</div>

I would prefer ordinary text though, like:

<div id="mygallery" class="stepcarousel">
<div class="belt">

<div class="panel">
<img src="http://i30.tinypic.com/531q3n.jpg" />
<br>My Caption
</div>