why this website address doesn't change

[Li Chen]

Hi all,

I browse a
website(http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/)
and jump from one link to another link. I notice that the address is
still the same even I jump to a new page. Which more is that I can not
see the content of the page using IE source view. In this case where
should I start if I want to parse the page and extract some info of
interest?

Thanks,

Li

 

[Hassan Schroeder]

I browse a
website(http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/)
and jump from one link to another link. I notice that the address is
still the same even I jump to a new page.

The page is constructed using frames.

If you're not familiar with that, start here:

<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/frames.html#edef-FRAMESET>

HTH,

 

[Li Chen]

The page is constructed using frames.

If you're not familiar with that, start here:

<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/frames.html#edef-FRAMESET>

HTH,

But why can't I see frameset and frame tags in the source view?

Li

 

[Hassan Schroeder]

But why can't I see frameset and frame tags in the source view?

Actually, I take it back -- it's using an iframe and a lot of JavaScript.

But you should see all that using `view source` of any browser.

 

[Li Chen]

Actually, I take it back -- it's using an iframe and a lot of
JavaScript.

But you should see all that using `view source` of any browser.

Part of the source view looks like the following

<iframe id="classic_ifrm" name="classic_ifrm"
src="http://dictionary2.classic.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/"
style="height:0px;"
scrolling="no" frameBorder="0" width="103%"
onload="iframeOnLoad();" ></iframe>

The link in "src" is actually the one I am interested in.
If I paste the value for src attribute into the IE browser I can go to a
new page which is familiar/(regular one) to me. And I have no problem to
extract the information I want.

Thank you very much,

Li