Problem opening page in dynamically generated iframe

[Malkalypse]

Hello, I have been having some trouble with this one, so I decided to
strip it down to its simplest form. I think I found the root of the
problem, but I don't know how to solve it.

I need a link in one iframe to open a page in a different iframe. I can
do this normally:

http://www.jonesmfgmusic.com/test/test1/

But, when the iframes are dynamically generated (created via a
javascript function), the target id does not seem to be recognized, and
the content is opened in a new window:

http://www.jonesmfgmusic.com/test/test2/

I need to get the second page working like the first one. Can anyone
tell me what I'm doing wrong?


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[Jc]

Re: Problem opening page in dynamically generated iframe

Malkalypse wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello, I have been having some trouble with this one, so I decided to
> strip it down to its simplest form. I think I found the root of the
> problem, but I don't know how to solve it.
>
> I need a link in one iframe to open a page in a different iframe. I can
> do this normally:
>
> http://www.jonesmfgmusic.com/test/test1/
>
> But, when the iframes are dynamically generated (created via a
> javascript function), the target id does not seem to be recognized, and
> the content is opened in a new window:
>
> http://www.jonesmfgmusic.com/test/test2/
>
> I need to get the second page working like the first one. Can anyone
> tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
>
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> Malkalypse
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AFAIK, you're not doing anything wrong, there seems to be an issue in
IE with setting the name property on an element created using
createElement. Refer to:

http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_frm/thread/fc32dd717dd2b87d/3b137a54913b8474

I added an alert to show document.body.i nnerHTML, and the name property
doesn't seem to be getting set properly. Interestingly, I did find that
the following code seems to work in IE:

var TargetFrame = document.create Element("<ifram e name='Target'>" );

I didn't test it, but the linked thread suggests trying innerHTML or
insertAdjacentH TML to create the iframe in IE.