Printing other Frames

[GodFoca]

Hey all! I have a frameset with two frames, and want to have a button in one
frame call print() in the other one:

This is the layout:

<frameset rows="*,40" frameborder="NO " border="0" framespacing="0 ">
<frame src="..." name="pritableT ext">
<frame src="..." name="printButt on" scrolling="NO" noresize>
</frameset>

And, in printButton, I got this code:

<a href="#" onClick="parent .printableText. focus();
parent.printabl eText.print();" >Print the page</a>

However, nothing happens in Netscape (7.01) and Firefox (0.8), and in IE (6)
I get an "error in the script". However, I do not identify the error.

Does anyone have a clue onto what's happening?

Thanks in advance,
Nicolas Sanguinetti

[kaeli]

Re: Printing other Frames

In article <ca20dc$lf7$1@d avinci.fing.edu .uy>,
n.sanguinetti@a dinet.com.uy enlightened us with...[color=blue]
> Hey all! I have a frameset with two frames, and want to have a button in one
> frame call print() in the other one:
>[/color]
<snip>[color=blue]
>
> Does anyone have a clue onto what's happening?
>[/color]

Well, unless you typed wrong, you have a typo in your frameset.[color=blue]
> <frame src="..." name="pritableT ext">[/color]
should be
name="printable Text"
(missing 'n')

Also, I don't think you wanted the parent of the anchor, yet I think
that's what your code is doing.[color=blue]
> <a href="#" onClick="parent .printableText. focus();
> parent.printabl eText.print();" >Print the page</a>[/color]

Try this instead
<a href="#" onClick="window .parent.printab leText.focus();
window.parent.p rintableText.pr int();">Print the page</a>

Note that I don't think that's cross browser. If it doesn't work in
mozilla / firefox, try
<a href="#" onClick="window .parent.frames['printableText'].focus();
window.parent.f rames['printableText'].print();">Prin t the page</a>

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