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    FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?

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    FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?
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    This text can only be altered by changing the URL of the page.
    The normal solution is to use frames, though this can introduce
    problems of its own.


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    • Randy Webb
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      Re: FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?

      FAQ server said the following on 1/7/2007 7:00 PM:
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      FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?
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      This text can only be altered by changing the URL of the page.
      The normal solution is to use frames, though this can introduce
      problems of its own.
      The second statement doesn't even come close to answering the question.
      It is almost totally irrelevant to the question asked. Frames are the
      "normal solution" *not* to change the text in the url/location bar.
      Although there are other "solutions" now, IFrame/AJAX/Loading JS
      Files/etc...
      --
      Randy
      Chance Favors The Prepared Mind
      comp.lang.javas cript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq/index.html
      Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

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        • Richard Cornford
          #3
          Re: FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?

          Randy Webb wrote:
          FAQ server said the following on 1/7/2007 7:00 PM:
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          >This text can only be altered by changing the URL of the page.
          >The normal solution is to use frames, though this can introduce
          >problems of its own.
          >
          The second statement doesn't even come close to answering the
          question. It is almost totally irrelevant to the question asked.
          Frames are the "normal solution" *not* to change the text in the
          url/location bar. Although there are other "solutions" now,
          IFrame/AJAX/Loading JS Files/etc...
          Frames (which include IFRAME elements) can be used to control the URL
          shown in the location bar. If you want to show contents at one location
          and the URL of another then (navigating to) a page at the URL that is to
          go into the location bar that has a frame pointing the URL of the
          desired content achieves that.

          Richard.


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            • Randy Webb
              #4
              Re: FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?

              Richard Cornford said the following on 1/7/2007 8:15 PM:
              Randy Webb wrote:
              >FAQ server said the following on 1/7/2007 7:00 PM:
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              >>FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?
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              >>This text can only be altered by changing the URL of the page.
              >>The normal solution is to use frames, though this can introduce
              >>problems of its own.
              >The second statement doesn't even come close to answering the
              >question. It is almost totally irrelevant to the question asked.
              >Frames are the "normal solution" *not* to change the text in the
              >url/location bar. Although there are other "solutions" now,
              >IFrame/AJAX/Loading JS Files/etc...
              >
              Frames (which include IFRAME elements) can be used to control the URL
              shown in the location bar.
              In the sense it hides/masks the URL then it controls it.
              If you want to show contents at one location and the URL of another
              then (navigating to) a page at the URL that is to go into the location
              bar that has a frame pointing the URL of the desired content achieves that.
              That is very true but doesn't answer the question that is asked. While
              it "controls" the URL, it doesn't actually change it, it merely
              hides/masks the true URL. And there are other methods to achieve that
              that are not mentioned. AJAX being one of them.

              The question it does answer is "How do I mask/hide the true URL of the
              page?"

              And, if the FAQ Entry is designed to answer how to hide/mask the URL
              then shouldn't the question be changed?

              --
              Randy
              Chance Favors The Prepared Mind
              comp.lang.javas cript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq/index.html
              Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

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                • Roy A.
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                  Re: FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?


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                  This text can only be altered by changing the URL of the page.
                  The normal solution is to use frames, though this can introduce
                  problems of its own.
                  I don't think you can do that without a round-trip to the server. The
                  normal solution is to use url rewrite or custom error pages. With
                  frames, the frameset page would have to be a real url with a frameset
                  document.

                  With custom error pages you could use JavaScript to submit a form with
                  a real location to a non existing url on the domain. Then, on the
                  server, you could use JavaScript to include the real page.

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                    • Randy Webb
                      #6
                      Re: FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?

                      Roy A. said the following on 1/8/2007 7:49 AM:
                      FAQ server skrev:
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                      >FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?
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                      >This text can only be altered by changing the URL of the page.
                      >The normal solution is to use frames, though this can introduce
                      >problems of its own.
                      >
                      I don't think you can do that without a round-trip to the server.
                      Actually, you can. An anchor within a page will change the text in the
                      url/location bar but it won't make a round-trip to the server. The FAQ
                      itself uses anchors :)
                      The normal solution is to use url rewrite or custom error pages. With
                      frames, the frameset page would have to be a real url with a frameset
                      document.
                      That is not entirely true. If the custom error page uses url rewrite to
                      point to the true frameset page...
                      With custom error pages you could use JavaScript to submit a form with
                      a real location to a non existing url on the domain. Then, on the
                      server, you could use JavaScript to include the real page.
                      I think (and not totally positive) that what got that question into the
                      FAQ to begin with was people asking how to hide the true URL of the
                      page. With the advent and popularity of the XMLHttpRequest Object you
                      don't see that question asked very often anymore.

                      In either event, the question has become mostly moot but the answer in
                      the FAQ doesn't begin to cover the possibilities of leaving the URL
                      intact while changing the page.
                      --
                      Randy
                      Chance Favors The Prepared Mind
                      comp.lang.javas cript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq/index.html
                      Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

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