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Better alternative to an iframe to display tab content?

Asked 2010-01-20T16:16:46.203
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I have a page with an iframe to feature the contents of the clicked tab. There are 3 tabs and 1 iframe. The sources of the contents relating to each tab clicked are formatted and coded in other html & css files.

What is another alternative to using an iframe, because I noticed that when the tab is clicked, it still shows the white background, similar to when a new page is loading?

Here's my code:

<div id="tabs">
<div id="overview">
  <a target="tabsa" class="imagelink lookA" href="toframe.html">Overviews</a>
</div>
<div id="gallery">
  <a target="tabsa" class="imagelink lookA" href="tawagpinoygallery.html">Gallery</a>
</div>
<div id="reviews">
  <a target="tabsa" class="imagelink lookA" href="trframe.html">Reviews</a>
</div>
</div>

<div id="tabs-1">
  <iframe src="toframe.html" name= "tabsa" width="95%" height="100%" frameborder="0">
  </iframe>
</div>
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You don't need script.

<ul><li><a href="#foo">foo link</a><li><a href="#bar">bar link</a></ul>
<div class="tab" id="foo">foo contents</div>
<div class="tab" id="bar">bar contents</div>

Plus this CSS, in most browsers: .tab:not(:target) { display: none !important; }, which defaults to all content visible if :target isn't supported (any modern browser supports it).

If you're showing content with script, always hide it with script. Let it degrade gracefully if that script doesn't run.

answered 2010-01-20T16:31:52.970
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This is jQuery example that includes another html page into your document. This is much more SEO friendly than iframe. In order to be sure that the bots are not indexing the included page just add it to disallow in robots.txt

<html>
  <header>
    <script src="/js/jquery.js" type="text/javascript">
  </header>
  <body>
    <div id='include-from-outside'></div>
    <script type='text/javascript'>
      $('#include-from-outside').load('http://example.com/included.html');
    </script> 
  </body>
</html>

You could also include jQuery directly from Google: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation/ - this means optional auto-inclusion of newer versions and some significant speed increase. Also, means that you have to trust them for delivering you just the jQuery ;)

answered 2010-03-02T07:09:42.457

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