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linking a specific document in a frame within a frameset
linking within a remote frameset
ammweb




msg:605578		 6:50 pm on Jul 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

O.K. I will try to explain what I am trying to do the best that I can and I hope that the answer is very simple and that somebody knows it.

Here is my situation:

When visitors come to the site they come to page A which contains 10 links. these ten links are linked to a frameset called contents.htm. Contents.htm has a top frame with information. a middle frame with the same 10 links from page A and the bottom frame, Mainframe. As you can see Page A is just a portal basically to get you to the frameset page where the visitor will do the remainder of there browsing. My problem is that I don't know how make the 10 links on page A open up Contents.htm and tell it what specific page to open in the mainframe.

Right now i just have the 10 links on Page A open up contents.htm with the default page set for the mainframe. I need to make it so that when the links on page A are clicked it loads contents.htm and puts the corresponding page in the mainframe.

Please help me I have exhausted all my research knowledge trying to figure this out.

Thanks,
Adam

 

legster




msg:605579		 7:49 pm on Jul 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Sounds like your pointing to the top frame instead of the frame page itself.

create a new page, let's call it frames.html:
<frameset rows="100,*">
<frame name="banner" scrolling="no" noresize target="contents" src="contents.html">
<frameset cols="120,*">
<frame name="contents" target="main" src="leftside.html">
<frame name="main" src="main.html">
</frameset>
<noframes>
<body>

<p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p>

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

Then have the links on your homepage point to the frames page. Then the frames page pulls in each of your content pages.

Hope that helps. Good luck!

ammweb




msg:605580		 8:47 pm on Jul 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thats not what I'm looking for but I appreciate your help.

I found a different way to state exactly what I am looking for:

>From one frameset, I have a set of links that need to be opened in
another frameset. There are 10 links involved, so the client would
prefer to avoid having to create a frameset for each link with the
appropriate .html file in the main frame. Is there a way to link to a
frameset and define which .html file would used in the main frame?

Please help again legster if you this help you more understand what I am trying to accomplish.

I have found some information on using a query string, but to be honest with you I am about as primitive as it gets when is comes to using javascript.

Help me out!

Thanks
Adam

scotttyz




msg:605581		 10:01 pm on Jul 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hi ammweb,

Is there a need for a second browser window? If no then then just add a target="__inserframenamehere__" into your <a href > tag.

If you do need to open a second frameset you might think of using session cookies to pass the info, but if the user does not allow cokies you would not be able to read the information

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