easy problem 4U

[steve32880]

I'm building a website.

I have 25 *.gif files, all of the same exact dimensions, and all of which i
would like to display on the same exact background in the same exact spot,
but i don't want to make 25 web pages. I want to make one page that has 25
links (the titles of each *.gif file), each of which, when clicked, will
display the appropriate *.gif in the spot in the middle of the page, so the
viewer can view each *.gif one at a time.

Can I do this in html?

 

[brucie]

I want to make one page that has 25 links (the titles of each *.gif file),
each of which, when clicked, will display the appropriate *.gif in the spot
in the middle of the page, so the viewer can view each *.gif one at a time.

http://usenet.alt-html.org/image-selector-thingy.php

source: http://usenet.alt-html.org/image-selector-thingy.phps

 

[brucie]

In post <[email protected]>
Lorne Cameron said...

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript"

^^^^^^^^^
delete it 'language' is deprecated in favor of 'type'

TYPE="text/javascript">

^^^^
which you have here anyway

<!--
var imageURL = location.search.substring(1);
document.write("<IMG SRC='" + imageURL + "' ALT='ALT_TEXT_HERE'>");
-->
</SCRIPT>

<A HREF="openImage.html?IMAGE_URL">IMAGE_NAME/thumbnail/etc</A>

what happens without JS?

 

[Richard Cornford]

what happens without JS?

The traditional completely blank page of course.

It might be possible to arrange that JavaScript was used to introduce
the JavaScript dependant openImage.html page into the equation in a way
that might still leave the user looking at the image if JS was not
available.

<a href="theImage.jpg"
onclick="this.href = 'openImage.html?img='+escape(this.href);">
IMAGE_NAME/thumbnail/etc</A>

Though a server-side script could produce reliable and consistent
results for everyone, for an equivalent authoring effort.

Richard.