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andrew1234

07-19-2003, 12:33 PM

How do i load a two new html pages into two seperate frames
frome one <a href> link?

instead of the normal way where the link targets one frame and loads one new html file into it.

can it be done

thanks

Andrew

David Harrison

07-19-2003, 12:45 PM

I'm about 95% sure that this would work:

In the head of the page with the link in:

<script type="text/javascript"></script>

and for the link have:

<a href="abc.html" target="frame1" onclick="twotargets('abc.html','def.html');return false;">Hi</a>

the href and target are there in case javascript is not enabled on the user's PC so that at least one frame gets the correct content loaded into it.

Charles

07-19-2003, 12:48 PM

Originally posted by lavalamp
I'm about 95% sure that this would work: But only for 87% of users. For something that will work and will always work, create a new frameset, just like the old one but with the two different pages. Then simply link to this new frameset.

David Harrison

07-19-2003, 12:55 PM

I did think of that, but then I thought, what if they don't always want to change both pages?

It could be that this is a one off link.

andrew1234

07-20-2003, 05:12 AM

thannks so much for the help

your script did not work..but it gave me an awsome idea
and i could not have done it with out you.

thank you so much

would you like the working script?

David Harrison

07-20-2003, 04:18 PM

Yeah, why not, post away. Although I'm also interested in why the script I posted didn't work. You did remember to change the frame names in it didn't you?

pyro

07-20-2003, 04:44 PM

Originally posted by lavalamp
Although I'm also interested in why the script I posted didn't work.It's probably the relationship between the frames. You had:

document.frame1.location.href=loc1;
document.frame2.location.href=loc2;

But maybe it needed:

top.frame1.location.href=loc1;
top.frame2.location.href=loc2;

David Harrison

07-20-2003, 04:47 PM

I thought that document referred to the page as a whole so that the frames were children of the document object.

pyro

07-20-2003, 04:55 PM

I don't think so... I don't have time to test right now, but I think top or parent would be what you need.

David Harrison

07-20-2003, 04:57 PM

Fair 'nuff. :)

andrew1234

07-21-2003, 01:30 AM

i had to change it to parent
and i added javascript: to the hyperlink
but i only figured out thati had to change the function to parent. so i'm not sure if i had to change the the hyperlink?

whats the difference between
document. and parent.?

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
</script>

</head>

<body>
<a href="javascript:loadframes('home.htm','homecontents.htm')">home</a><br>

<a href="javascript:loadframes('about.htm','aboutcontents.htm')">about</a><br>
<a href="javascript:loadframes('help.htm','helpcontents.htm')">help</a><br>
<br>
</body>
</html>

David Harrison

07-21-2003, 01:30 PM

You should really do this:

<a href="#" onclick="loadframes('home.htm','homecontents.htm');return false;">home</a>

to shield your script from any browsers who don't understand javascript, so that they don't go and generate errors.

andrew1234

07-22-2003, 10:48 AM

thanks

look i'm more a designer than a cder
and its amazing how thing work.

and i'm getting into the code thing now because i guess i have to ..

thanks for the advice

andrew