Question

I’m busy working on a web app that basically has 5 pages that one can jump to from the navigation bar (obviously). But instead of using links the normal why where you’ll get directed to a different web page entirely, I want to keep everything in my “index.html”. So when you click on one of the navigation bar links, an iFrame will just get populated with a different document e.g. about.html, controlpanel.html, profile.html etc…

Is this good practice or are there better ways of doing this?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

One problem I see is that your users won’t be able to bookmark / share any links to your pages.

All they can do is with the /index.html.

Edit:

Based on your comment, in order to avoid redundancy in coding header / footer, this is what I recommend:

init.jsp

Declare all imports, taglibs, any global variables here.

header.jsp

<%@ include file="init.jsp" %>
Write code for header here

footer.jsp

<%@ include file="init.jsp" %>
Write code for footer here

page1.jsp

<%@ include file="init.jsp" %>
<%@ include file="header.jsp" %>
Write main code here.
<%@ include file="footer.jsp" %>

page2.jsp

<%@ include file="init.jsp" %>
<%@ include file="header.jsp" %>
Write main code here.
<%@ include file="footer.jsp" %>