Displaying a URL

A web site or web application can load into an HTML gadget using a URL. For example, using http://www.actuate.com loads the Actuate web site into the HTML gadget.

Some web sites and web applications support receiving additional parameters in the URL. If the additional parameters in the URL require special encoding or are displaying errors, consider using JavaScript redirection with the same URL in the HTML gadget.

The following code example shows JavaScript redirecting a user to a selected web site:

<script type="text/javascript">  

  <!--  

  window.location = "http://www.actuate.com"  

  //-->  

</script>

Some web sites do not permit embedding their content in another web site or attempt to control the browser display to present their content. For example, JavaScript code using "parent" or "top" to access HTML components can overwrite parts of the Information Console interface.

When displaying an external site in an HTML gadget, links in embedded web sites can redirect the user to other locations or websites. How this link resolves depends on the HTML code of the remote site. If the link attempts to load a new page in the place of the existing page, it is possible for the user of an HTML gadget to browse different websites on the internet.

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