how can I make a <a> tag so that when I click that <a> tag,the URL should not go in the address bar?

Question

In My JSP ,I have an <a href="patient/tools.do?Id=<%=mp.get("FROM_RANGE") %>"> <%= mp.get("DESCRITPION") %></a> ....when i click the anchor tag the url normally goes in the Address bar.I want the URL not to go in the Address bar.how can i do that?

Please note that <%=mp.get("FROM_RANGE") %> and <%= mp.get("DESCRITPION") %> are all scriptlets for getting value from java variables...

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You cannot. (Why do you need to do it anyway?)

But you could open the link via AJAX - but then you'd need to process the returned data via JavaScript. Or you could use frames. They are horrible and annoying for users though.

Answer 2

Investigate .htaccess and URL rewrites. I do not believe you can change the not change the url in an <a> tag. An example also of using javascript to change the url is in a game(mentioned on slashdot) that is played entirely in the url bar. http://probablyinteractive.com/url-hunter . Check out the source code and mabye you could derive something from that.

Answer 3

You have some options to do this:

1. Wrap your contents in a frameset or iFrame.
2. Load your contents dynamically using AJAX.
3. If you have a control over the domain name, then you can use domain masking technique

Answer 4

you can just use IFrame and change URL for that iframe. Make iframe as big as the page itself.