HTML & CSS Sidebar menus

[RobertWA]

I want to use a sidebar menu (width about 20%) which remains on the page when an item is clicked and the content opens in the remaining 80%. Ie when the content is visible, so too is the menu.

How can I use a hyperlink in a menu item to open a file in the other part of the screen, still leaving the menu visible?

Thanks in advance

Robert

 

[Mutiny]

One solution may be to use frames: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/html/html_frames.htm

Frames are no longer really used, however, but if you are looking to embed a PDF that shows up when you click a link in a navigation menu and have the menu still visible, it might be a viable solution. You should never use frames for HTML content though, those days are long gone.

Another option might be to have an iframe for the embedded files and when you click the link Javascript updates the src value of the iframe with the URL of the new file the user is viewing. This might be a better option than using frames.

 

[RobertWA]

One solution may be to use frames: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/html/html_frames.htm

Frames are no longer really used, however, but if you are looking to embed a PDF that shows up when you click a link in a navigation menu and have the menu still visible, it might be a viable solution. You should never use frames for HTML content though, those days are long gone.

Another option might be to have an iframe for the embedded files and when you click the link Javascript updates the src value of the iframe with the URL of the new file the user is viewing. This might be a better option than using frames.

Thank you. I'll look into that. I'm using html files, not PDF.