Question

Hello, I am brandnew to TWiki, so please excuse my stupid question:

How do I declare external links inside my topic so that they are shown within the frame. For example see this: Google It will lead directly to Google.

But what I like to have is a link which content stays inside the frame, e.g. me

TIA, Mic@

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-- MichaelFirschke - 01 Nov 2005

Answer

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Hi Mic@

It seems that for external links (where you enter an URL beginning with http://) TWiki always adds target="_top". It is hardcoded in Render.pm.

If your number of external links is small and known in advance, you can work around with InterwikiPlugin: InterSiteLinkRules has a couple of examples how this works, not just for linking to other wikis. Links created in this way do not (yet) have a target attribute.

Be sure not to enforce the link with double brackets if you want to avoid breaking the frameset. Compare the source of the following two links:

Google:Berlin - target="_top" with [[Google:Berlin]]

Google:Berlin - no target attribute with Google:Berlin

-- HaraldJoerg - 01 Nov 2005

Sorry Harald, but both of Your Google-links are doing the same (wrong) behaviour of showing its content in a fresh window and not inside the existing frames of twiki

That´s is the behavior I don´t like. Meanwhile I experimented with INCLUDE command, but this seems also a bit tricky when You use proxys for internet access.

Any other ideas will be welcome. Best wishes from Berlin, Mic@

-- MichaelFirschke - 03 Nov 2005

See IFrameExample

-- PeterThoeny - 12 Nov 2005

THX, I was afraid of this being the only answer And sorry for writing about "frames" - I have learned now that twiki is working frameless. But from a first glance to this website it appears to me like twiki uses frames (especially the left navigation window part).

-- MichaelFirschke - 13 Nov 2005

If TWiki used framsets the left menu bar would be in a separate frame and scroll & update seperately. No, the menu bar simply doens't have the 'feel' for a frame-based system, and I've built quite a few.

See also

• FeatureXIsIsNotEvil#Troll_Point_Frames
• TopicFrames
• UsingFramesInTWiki

-- AntonAylward - 13 Nov 2005