Edit Record from Search Interface HTML Page

Edit Record from Search Interface HTML Page

I am essentially building a html search interface similar to the one here: 
https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/tutorials/advanced-app-building.html

However, I would like to be able to select the records displayed in the results table to edit. 

So in the example, I would like to be able to click on the email address for Tina and be able to edit this record. 

I have almost managed to do this by using <a href="<thiscode>"> 
where thiscode =  http://creator.zoho.com/<userName>/<applinkname>/#Form:<formlinkname>?recLinkID=<recordID>&viewLinkName=<viewlinkname>
(Following this logic:  https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/views/editing-records-via-record-id.html

My issue is that this opens in new window, or same window, etc, as it is controlled by html. 
I would like to be able to either open in iframe in the html page, or as popup, but I can't seem to use the openURL function on a html page, and can't use javascript, so am a bit limited here.

Is there a solution to this anyone could suggest? 

Thank you, 
Bianca.