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code for five short pages to illustrate the problem
index.htm page
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Page title</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="10%,30%,60%">
<frame src="hidden.htm" name="hidden">
<frame src="menu.htm" name="menu">
<frame src="page1.htm" name="content">
</frameset>
</html>
page1.htm
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Page title</title>
</head>
<body>
this is page 1 with nothing else but this text
</body>
</html>
page2.htm
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Page title</title>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
function saveIt(){
parent.hidden.storedData=myform.mydata.value
}
function loadIt(){
myform.mydata.value=parent.hidden.storedData
}
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body onload="loadIt()">
Page 2
<form name="myform">
<input type="text" name="mydata" size="20" onblur="saveIt()">type anything
</form>
</body>
</html>
hidden.htm page
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Page title</title>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
var storedData=""
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
this is the left most frame
</body>
</html>
menu.htm page
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Page title</title>
</head>
<body>
Menu page
<br>
<a href="page1.htm" target="content">page 1</a>
<br>
<a href="page2.htm" target="content">page 2</a>
</body>
</html>
thanks in anticipation!
Let's pick the JavaScript apart, shall we?
function saveIt(){
parent.hidden.storedData=myform.mydata.value
}
function loadIt(){
myform.mydata.value=parent.hidden.storedData
}
parent.hidden.storedDataparenthiddenhiddenstoredDatahiddenparent.hidden.[b]document[/b].storedDataNow, what about
myform.mydata.value[b]document[/b].myform.mydata.value
I tried this in NN7 but it just gave search results for javascript. Anything I should do to get it working?
