I was able to create a layout in dreamweaver and use the include/extend 
option to use in web2py. I am not sure if that will help but using an 
external layout is something to things about.

On Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 11:16:46 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>
> Web2py components are really designed to live in their own div. If you are 
> looking to build a single page application should should look into angular 
> or ractive. They both work with web2py.
>
> On Saturday, 18 April 2015 19:05:02 UTC-5, Gary Cowell wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I'm struggling with components, with ajax. I've been trying to follow 
>> examples in the book and blog and not getting very far. 
>>
>> I have an application that's based on five controller functions, with a 
>> page each. Each page has the same header at the top, and the bottom two 
>> thirds of the page holds the form for that page. This clearly means that 
>> when I choose a new menu option, I get a page refresh.
>>
>> So what I thought I wanted to do, was have the bottom two thirds of the 
>> page hold a div and component, but a generic div into which I would load my 
>> required form for the menu option that was just selected.
>>
>> So my menu options would cause a different form to load in the bottom of 
>> the page, and process it as it does now. This would allow me also to 
>> refresh sqlform.grid contents without a page reload too.
>>
>> So instead of five pages, I'd have one page, and five components, but 
>> only one div for them to go in
>>
>> Does this sound like something possible? A reasonable way to construct an 
>> app? The page reloads look kind of ugly at the moment.
>>
>> I'm struggling though with the examples,  could someone please give a 
>> couple of pointers about how this might be accomplished?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>

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