Changing the parent with the child

**Wallee** · 12-07-2002 06:45 PM

I know that I can use "_blank" to open another window when a link is clicked, but whenever a link inside that window is clicked, the resultant page is opened inside that same window (or another). How can I make it so that when a link is clicked inside the newly opened window, the window closes and the desired page comes up in the original main window? Does anybody know how this can be done?

**Stefan** · 12-07-2002 06:50 PM

Originally posted by Wallee How can I make it so that when a link is clicked inside the newly opened window, the window closes and the desired page comes up in the original main window? Does anybody know how this can be done? [/B]

You need to make the first page loaded in a frameset (you can have frameset with only 1 frame).
Then you specify a name for that frame, eg main.

Then you make your link in your new page target="main".

You can find specifics here
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/frames.html

Altearnativly you can do it with JavaScript too, but that will break if JavaScript is not available in the visitors browser.

**Wallee** · 12-07-2002 07:05 PM

Thanks

**Stefan** · 12-07-2002 08:20 PM

Originally posted by Dave Clark
I have never seen a target that is able to find a named frame that is not in the same browser window.

Take a peak at this code then for a new experience

Index.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<frameset border="0"> 
<frame name="main" src="initial.html" frameborder="0" marginwidth="1" marginheight="1" scrolling="auto" />
<noframes>
<body>

Frames are not working in your Browser. 
If you have Frames turned off, please turn it on to view this site.

</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

initial.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>


<a target="_blank" href="blank.html">open _blank</a>


</body>
</html>

blank.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
<title></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" title="Default" media="screen" href="main.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>


<a target="main" href="blank.html">open in main</a>


</body>
</html>

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