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page links to itself...

Discussion in 'HTML and CSS Help' started by hagen, Apr 14, 2006.

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    Hi, I would like a page with a link on it that when I click, it jumps to itself using an html / css link...

    IE somthing like:

    href="."

    I don't want to explicitly declare the file names as i want it to be generic for whatever page i am on...

    and ideas??

    Cheers -Hagen


    hagen, Apr 14, 2006
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    bfsog Coder

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    Using html and css alone, I do not think so..

    With JavaScript, yes.


    bfsog, Apr 14, 2006
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    There is a way ... but it's a PHP method.

    That means, you would have to change your extensions from .html to .php

    Inside that HTML file (for example: index.php), you would insert this:

    <?php
    $url=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
    echo "<a href='$url'>Re-display this page</a>";
    ?>

    The link becomes a link to itself ... no matter what the URL is.
    The advantage of PHP of course, is that you could send variables
    back to itself and utilize other PHP sections to process variables.
    Sort of a dynamic, change-on-the-fly type of thing. If anyone
    has Javascripting turned off, it would still work OK.

    =====================

    Doing it with Javascripting?
    http://www.google.com/search?q=javascript reload page&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=


    .


    mlseim, Apr 14, 2006
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    Yeah, I already did that in the intrium, but I want to know just for record how to do it in css / html...

    Thanks -Hagen


    hagen, Apr 14, 2006
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    Jason Formally Perad

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    I have probably completely misunderstood the question but don't you just need to do href="#" That will take you to the same page


    Jason, Apr 17, 2006
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    "#" is just for a dummy link, to call a client side scripting function, or similar.


    bfsog, Apr 17, 2006
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    I've got ask this: why if a client is already viewing a page, does he need a link to reload the same page?


    Arkette, Apr 17, 2006
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    Oh no it isn't href="#" is used for bookmarks actually. E.g.
    Code:
    <div id="content">Content Here</div>
<p><a href="#content">Go To Content</a></p>
    Just a href="#" will return the user to the top of the page. You could pass a dummy querystring, e.g.
    Code:
    <a href="?a=a">Reload Page</a>
    Although this has the obvious side effect of passing a non-meaningful querystring.

    Javascript Option
    Code:
    <a href="javascript:location.reload(true)">Reload Page</a>
    Hope this is useful :D


    dchesterton, Apr 20, 2006
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