ASP and HTML Layout Problem

vwani · Jun 9, 2004

Hi Friends,

I have a problem and I need your help to solve it.It hoes this way.
I have a navigation menu on the left side of my webpage. I need one of these buttons to link me to a page which contains a caption.Below this caption I want a frame which should display a page from some third party site.
Eg.

Navigation Menu

Home
About Myself
Family

Each of these items link me to a page. Now I want to link About Myself to a page which contains description about me.Below that description I want to display the main page of another site.
I have tried to achieve this using Frames.I have a page called frameset which contains two frames.One frame aboutme.asp and other pageDesc.asp as follows

Frameset.asp File contains
<html>
<frameset>
<frame src="aboutme.asp">
<frame src="pageDesc.asp">
</frameset>
</html>

aboutme.asp

<img src="/images/top.gif" border="0"><br><br>
<table>
<tr>
<td valign="center">
<p>Hello World<br>
</tr>
</td>
</table>


pageDesc.asp
<table>
<tr><td align="center">
<%Response.Redirect("

http://somesite.com/templates/search_form.asp?pid=242&oid=306")%>

</td></tr>
</table>

I can see the contents of aboutme,asp but I cannot view the page below the description.Where I am going wrong?Please help

Thank You

tlhawkins · Jun 9, 2004

Hi vwani,

I think the XMLHTTP object may be able to solve your problem:

Code:

  Response.Buffer = True
  Dim objXMLHTTP, xml

  ' Create an xmlhttp object:
  Set xml = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
  ' Or, for version 3.0 of XMLHTTP, use:
  ' Set xml = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")

  ' Opens the connection to the remote server.
  xml.Open "GET", "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.4Guysfromrolla.com/",[/URL] False
	
  ' Actually Sends the request and returns the data:
  xml.Send

  'Display the HTML both as HTML and as text
  Response.Write "<h1>The HTML text</h1><xmp>"
  Response.Write xml.responseText
  Response.Write "</xmp><p><hr><p><h1>The HTML Output</h1>"

  Response.Write xml.responseText
 
  
  Set xml = Nothing

I pulled this code from the 4guysfromrolla website.
it demonstrates how to use XMLHTTP to get the contents of a page and display it where you want it. You could put the content into a frame or an iframe... or whatever.

You can even grab dynamic pages to insert into your page.

I hope it helps.

Travis Hawkins
BeachBum Software
travis@cfm2asp.com

http://www.beachbumsoftware.com

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ASP and HTML Layout Problem

vwani

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