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nash
10-14-2003, 08:44 AM
Okay, here's my problem:

I have a page with 3 frames: One which displays the menu (frame name="menu")
One which displays the body of the text (frame name="main")
And one which displays the links related to that subject matter (frame name="links")

I would like that, by a simple click on one of the links inside the "menu" frame, the content of both "main" and "links" frames would be changed but not the "menu" one!.

I know that to change two frames at once I have to use Javascript, but I only know this code:
<a href="main.html"
onClick="window.self.location='links.html'" target="main">
Main Page</a>
But, when I use this, the menu disappears and features the links... :(

Do you know what I should change in this code so that the links appear inside the "links" frame?

Thanx for your help!
Khalid Ali
10-14-2003, 08:51 AM
onclick="parent.frameName.location.href='someResource.html';"

will do,make sure you use the above for both frames
nash
10-14-2003, 09:05 AM
:( Doesn't work!

It gives me a "expected ';'" error... Might be because the links are inside a drop down menu (made with javascript)

mv2_lien[0] += '<A HREF="main.html" target="main" CLASS=mv2style onclick="parent.topleft.location.href='links.html';"> . Homepage</A><BR>';

Must create a conflict somehow...


:(
requestcode
10-14-2003, 09:10 AM
You need to excape the single quotes with in your string since you are using thos to enclose the string. try this:
mv2_lien[0] += '<A HREF="main.html" target="main" CLASS=mv2style onclick="parent.topleft.location.href=\\'links.html\\'"> . Homepage</A><BR>';
Khalid Ali
10-14-2003, 09:16 AM
Code works fine,as requestcode already mentioned,you will need to escape the single qoutes around url.
use his updated code above
nash
10-14-2003, 09:17 AM
Now my drop down menu works but links change only the contant of "main" frame and not of "topleft" (the links one):confused:
Khalid Ali
10-14-2003, 09:28 AM
:confused:
not sure if I follow you,here is my guess
onclick="parent.topleft.location.href=\'links.html\'"
you will need to add the second resource for second frame as well. e.g

onclick="parent.topleft.location.href=\'links.html\';parent.secondFrameName.location.href='url.html'"

don't forget to escape the single qoutes
nash
10-14-2003, 09:37 AM
Well, here's my frameset:
<html>
<head>
<title>Whatever</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="25%,75%">
<frameset rows="50%,50%">
<frame src="links_intro.html" name="topleft">
<frame src="menu.html" name="bottomleft">
</frameset>
<frame src="main.html" name="main">
</frameset>
<noframes>
<body>
Viewing this page requires a browser capable of displaying frames.
</body>
</noframes>
</html>
The drop down menu is located in the frame named "bottomleft" and I want that each click on one of the menu links changes the content of both "topleft" and "main"

Using this:
mv2_lien[0] += '<A HREF="main.html" target="main" CLASS=mv2style> . Homepage</A><BR>'; in my menu works perfectly to change the content of "main" frame, but when I add the code you provided (even with the necessary "\"s before the quotation marks) it doesn't change the content of "topleft":(

Does it make more sense now?
lillu
10-14-2003, 10:00 AM
Put this into menu.html :

<a href="main.html" target="main"></a>

Put this into main.html :

<script language="javascript">
top.topleft.location="links_intro.htm"
</script>
nash
10-14-2003, 10:11 AM
Woohoo!

This works perfectly!... Thanx for your help everybody!;)