Using history in frameset

[Ian]

I'd appreciate some help on this one.

We use a three-window frameset for online manuals. The "main" window
contains our document. Since the documents have hyperlinks between
them for related topics, we have "return" links built into a
navigation bar on some of the pages. Most of the time these work
fine, but if the person clicked on the top or left frame before
clicking on the "return" link, the wrong frame is changed.

Does anybody know how to alter the script so that only the main
document window is in focus? Here's the script we use in the page:

<a href="javascrip t:history.go(-1);">Back</a>

By the way, this is for a company Intranet - with all users on IE5.5
as a minimum.

Thanks.

Ian Hubling
ian@hubling.com

[VK]

Re: Using history in frameset

history is a method of window object, so the full syntacs is
window.history. go(-1)
(as default parent object 'window' is mostly ommited in scripting to save
the space)

discovering the parents makes your task easy; for a named frame "main" the
command will be:
top.main.histor y.go(-1)
it will work from any frame no matter where the focus is.

Ian <ian@hubling.co m> wrote in message
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> I'd appreciate some help on this one.
>
> We use a three-window frameset for online manuals. The "main" window
> contains our document. Since the documents have hyperlinks between
> them for related topics, we have "return" links built into a
> navigation bar on some of the pages. Most of the time these work
> fine, but if the person clicked on the top or left frame before
> clicking on the "return" link, the wrong frame is changed.
>
> Does anybody know how to alter the script so that only the main
> document window is in focus? Here's the script we use in the page:
>
> <a href="javascrip t:history.go(-1);">Back</a>
>
> By the way, this is for a company Intranet - with all users on IE5.5
> as a minimum.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ian Hubling
> ian@hubling.com[/color]