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  • sform
    New Member
    • Apr 2008
    • 4
    #1

    Referring to one frame from another frame

    I have a frameset with three frames:

    [HTML]<html>
    <head>
    <title>Untitled </title>
    </head>
    <frameset rows="10%,*,10% " frameborder="1" >
    <frame src="button.htm " name="button" />
    <frame src="main.htm" name="Main" id="Main" />
    <frame src="menu2.htm" name="menu-one" />
    </frameset>
    </html>[/HTML]

    My research says to refer from 1 frame to another like this:

    [HTML]<INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Titles Only" onClick="top.fr ames[0].location='main .htm' ">[/HTML]

    When I try this I get
    top.frames0 is not an object

    Any suggestions?
    Last edited by gits; Apr 19 '08, 07:56 AM. Reason: added code tags
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    • pronerd
      Recognized Expert Contributor
      • Nov 2006
      • 392
      #2
      Ok. First of "top.frames[0].location='main .htm' " needs to be "top.frames[0].location.href='main.htm' "

      Secondly it is usually easier to access elements across frames with relative rather than explicit paths. So something like this would work better.
      Code:
      parent.frames[0].location.[B]href[/B]='main.htm' 
parent.button.location.[B]href[/B]='main.htm'

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        • sform
          New Member
          • Apr 2008
          • 4
          #3
          Thanks for your reply - still working on this:

          Frameset page:

          [HTML]<html>
          <head>
          <title>Untitled </title>
          </head>
          <frameset rows="10%,*,10% " frameborder="1" >
          <frame src="buttons.ht m" name="buttons"/>
          <frame src="display.ht m" name="display"/>
          <frame src="links.htm" name="links"/>
          </frameset>
          </html>
          [/HTML]
          Buttons.htm:

          [HTML]<html>
          <head>
          <title>Button s</title>
          <script type="text/javascript">

          function openframes() {

          var a = top.location.hr ef="links.htm" ;
          }
          </script>

          </head>
          <body>
          <table>
          <tr><td>

          <input type=button value="Helper" onClick="openfr ames()"/>

          </td>
          </table>
          </body>
          </html>
          [/HTML]
          This puts links.htm into the full page, but what I want is for links.htm to appear in the "display" frame.
          Should be able to do this by somehow referring to the frames array (frames[0[, frames[1]).
          Last edited by acoder; Apr 22 '08, 01:49 PM. Reason: Added code tags

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            • acoder
              Recognized Expert MVP
              • Nov 2006
              • 16032
              #4
              Try:
              [code=javascript]top.display.loc ation.href="lin ks.htm";[/code]

              PS. please use [code] tags when posting code. Thanks.

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                • sform
                  New Member
                  • Apr 2008
                  • 4
                  #5
                  Originally posted by acoder
                  Try:
                  [code=javascript]top.display.loc ation.href="lin ks.htm";[/code]

                  PS. please use [code] tags when posting code. Thanks.
                  I get "top.display.lo cation is null or not an object"

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                    • acoder
                      Recognized Expert MVP
                      • Nov 2006
                      • 16032
                      #6
                      Are you sure you have it like this:[code=javascript]function openframes() {
                      top.display.loc ation.href="lin ks.htm";
                      }[/code]

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                        • sform
                          New Member
                          • Apr 2008
                          • 4
                          #7
                          Originally posted by acoder
                          Are you sure you have it like this:[code=javascript]function openframes() {
                          top.display.loc ation.href="lin ks.htm";
                          }[/code]

                          Just discovered that this happens only when previewing in the WYSIWYG HTML-Kit program but not when I preview in IE 6!

                          Thanks for your help!

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                            • acoder
                              Recognized Expert MVP
                              • Nov 2006
                              • 16032
                              #8
                              No problem, glad it's working. Post back to the forum if you have any more questions.

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