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How to open another website within the body of my website

I have a Rails 4 app. I'd like for my user to be able to click on a button and open another random website within the page they are currently on. The users could then navigate the new website and my page would maintain it's navigation bar and border around the new website.

How should I create this feature?

Solution

  • Well, why don't you create an iframe and create a trigger (button in this case) to navigate that iframe. With Jquery it's simple:

    Javascript (jQuery)

    $("#button").click(function () { 
      $("#iframe").attr("src", "http://www.google.com/");
});

    HTML:

    <iframe id="iframe" src="" width="100%" height="400"></iframe><button id="button">Load</button>

    try something like this. But make sure you load jQuery first :)