HTML question

[konichiwa]

Does anyone know how some websites (the two that come to mind right now are gamecopyworld.com and lnkworld.com) keep one URL in the address bar? For instance, go to one of the aformentioned websites and click on a link...you'll notice that the Address Bar still reads the URL of the root site (www.gamecopyworld.com for example)

How do they do this?

 

[ShizNitz]

The webserver that they are currently running returns the page requested as well as the URL for that page (which can be anything)

 

[konichiwa]

Ahh, so it's not an HTML issue, it's a feature of the actual webserver. Okay, thanks.

 

[Pretender]

My guess is that it's using an invisible frame as the main frame, and the actual "page" that you see/navigate is in a separate frame.

 

[Pretender]

Yep, now I'm sure. View the source for lnkworld.com. It opens the main page (http://lnkworld.com/linkworld.shtml) in a frame.

If you want to test this, just go to http://lnkworld.com/linkworld.shtml, and click on a link. Voila, the address bar changes!