How do I code a page within a page?

Like, for example, on fapchan if you click on an external link the navbar and fap chan stuff stays, and on the url you're still on fapchan but the link opens up inside of fapchan.

How do I do that?

tl;dr

A webpage displayed within a certain part of another webpage, how?

Use frames. Unless you're good at CSS. If you need more specific help and can whip up an example.

I remember reading somewhere about how to do it. But yeah, I'm sure it has something to do with frames.

http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_frames.asp

Here, instead of making a whole new example, here's an internet tut.

Just remember to specify the target of the link. Ex: target=main, etc.

Quote from Sawc

Use frames. Unless you're good at CSS. If you need more specific help and can whip up an example.

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I may have skipped the frames section in my html/css book.

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So here's the basic layout for the site.

http://randomocity.x10hosting.com/forums.html

And I want the forums (which I'll use a free hosting site to get because I feel like cheating) to appear in the gray box.

So you understand now? or would you like me to make that example?

EDIT:
I forgot to mention, you need to be careful with this. If someone visits the site with a browser that doesn't support frames, then they won't be able to see it. That's why most sites use CSS.

I can't help you with that, as I don't know much CSS myself. The whole point of CSS, however, is for this exact thing. To have a layout with different documents. I just used frames on my website.

Quote from Sawc

I can't help you with that, as I don't know much CSS myself. The whole point of CSS, however, is for this exact thing. To have a layout with different documents. I just used frames on my website.

I thought the whole point of CSS was to be able to arrange and decorate your document in a way that cleans up the HTML code and makes it easier to edit things.

I'll just go check out frames.

Edit*

Hey, while I have this thing open, how do you put the image thing that appears next to the name of the site in tabs?

That's called a Favicon. You make a 16x16 icon, and save it as favicon.ico. Then you upload it to the main directory of your site via your FTP program, and it should automatically be showing up from then on.

CSS does not have the ability to create frames. Also, if you don't want to cut up your entire page into frames, you can use iframes (inline frames).

All modern browsers (IE,FF,Opera) support frames. Unless you're making a commercial site and need support for all users, I wouldn't worry about it.

Also, for the icon in the menu bar, your need to add this to your page header:

*Edit*

And your page doesn't resize. :(

Quote from darkcampainger

CSS does not have the ability to create frames. Also, if you don't want to cut up your entire page into frames, you can use iframes (inline frames).

All modern browsers (IE,FF,Opera) support frames. Unless you're making a commercial site and need support for all users, I wouldn't worry about it.

Also, for the icon in the menu bar, your need to add this to your page header:

*Edit*

And your page doesn't resize. :(

Yeah, for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to use absolute positioning instead of the other ones. It works perfectly fine for full screen browsing but otherwise it doesn't work.

I'll fix it.

Alright Sawc, could you code me up an example.

Because my html/css book isn't being much help right now.

you can do that with php.
i did it with my uploader...

Quote from zymn

you can do that with php.
i did it with my uploader...

That's wonderful, especially because I don't know any php.