A basic framed* website… more experiments with disappearing iframes

Want to follow along? You are going to need some basic familiarity with JavaScript, html, css, you will need a code editor and have the files served from a webserver. Due to iframe restrictions, this won’t work locally.

From my An experimental take on the retro website frames… disappearing iframes with vanilla-js, html, and css post we know have a way of using html pages as page fragments using iframes and then making those iframes disappear. Let’s tackle a small proof of concept website using this …

An experimental take on the retro website frames… disappearing iframes with vanilla-js, html, and css

Want to follow along? You are going to need some basic familiarity with JavaScript, html, css, and you will need a code editor. Also the files will need to be served from a webserver and not the local file system. For quick projects like this I use Glitch. Why won’t it work? Because of iframe security restrictions.

Let’s Get Started

If you recall from my introduction post, framed websites have three main issues:

1. You might navigate to the fragment page itself, thus seeing an …