Tabs and Frames that can't remember previous state.

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I am working on getting some desktop space back. Right now I have to have 6
to 10 Internet Explorers open while working support issues. I've been
working on creating Digital Dashboard on a SharePoint server so that we only
need one or two IEs running. I used the CSS Tab Desiger
(http://www.snapfiles.com/get/CSSTabDesigner.html) to create the Tab's and
managed to figure out how to get the "tabs" to open in a Frame. However I
when going back and forth between Frames (using the tab buttons) the page
does not keep its current state. Instead it goes back to the original page.

I tride to have the tab open a "portal" page that pointed to the web
application in use. Had the same results the "portal" page would reload and
thereby reload the original web losing all our information.

Can someone point me where to find a way to use CSS tabs, Frames that won't
reload the page when going back and forth between tabs?

Thanks,
 
Use a CSS or Dhtml menu like from http://www.dynamicdrive.com/

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|I am working on getting some desktop space back. Right now I have to have 6
| to 10 Internet Explorers open while working support issues. I've been
| working on creating Digital Dashboard on a SharePoint server so that we only
| need one or two IEs running. I used the CSS Tab Desiger
| (http://www.snapfiles.com/get/CSSTabDesigner.html) to create the Tab's and
| managed to figure out how to get the "tabs" to open in a Frame. However I
| when going back and forth between Frames (using the tab buttons) the page
| does not keep its current state. Instead it goes back to the original page.
|
| I tride to have the tab open a "portal" page that pointed to the web
| application in use. Had the same results the "portal" page would reload and
| thereby reload the original web losing all our information.
|
| Can someone point me where to find a way to use CSS tabs, Frames that won't
| reload the page when going back and forth between tabs?
|
| Thanks,
|
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| Tom Hagen
 
Thanks for posting but I did use a CSS menu, and have already looked at the
website http://www.dynamicdrive.com/. The issue still remains. Their tools
and scrips (at least have not found any) do not really tell how to keep the
current state of the Frame when clicking on another tab to bring up another
Frame.

Think of it like IE7. (The comapanies apps have problem with IE& so we can
not use it yet) When you have www.technet.com on the first tab with a
search, the (current) second tab has www.msdn.com with another serach. What
should happen is when going from the 2nd tab back to the first the search is
still there. If refine the search and filp to the second tab and do some
minor changes. Going back and forth both tabs keep the current information.

When I use the tools from either http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ or
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/CSSTabDesigner.html the only code they make is
for the tabs themselves, not directly using the Frames. The person has to
manaually add that in. Also most of what I've been reading at
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ is for popups, which is what we are basiclly
trying to eliminate, or expanding the menu/tabs. Nothing truley onj how to
handle Frames on the same page as the CSS menu so that Frame could be
"placed" on top of another Frame. Tried this with IFrames and Z-index, but
did not have success there either. The webpages in IFrames had issues with
the basic Page Refresh.

If you want I can post the basic code for the webpage we are trying to
create on Frontpage.

I remember fixing a similare two years ago from code I found out here, but
can not find the topic from that time.

Many thanks,
 
I have found another sight that does do a little of what I'm looking for.
http://livepipe.net/projects/control_tabs/ has the ability to swap between
tabs and store the "pages". But I have not figured out how to use it yet
with Frames. They appear to have it work with intenal scripting, do not see
a way to use other web apps in the frame.

Any suggestions?
 
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