IE 5.x back button bug when using frameset

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IE 5.x back button bug when using frameset

rmurphy

2:55 am on May 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm using a frameset to display a navigation frame and main frame. The navigation frame controls the URL displayed in the main frame, and this works correctly.

My problem is that IE 5.x is not highlighting the back button when the URL in the main frame is changed, but it works correctly when called from another web page.

I think this is a problem with IE not seeing the main frame has changed, so no history. The back button works correctly in Netscape.

Is there a way to force IE to highlight the back button when a frame in the frameset changes, or maybe some other work around to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

tedster

6:38 am on May 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

It took browsers many versions to offer good, intuitive back button functioning for framesets -- and IE was very late to the party. I don't think it was all worked out until version 6.0. And frames have been around since what, Netscape 2.0?

I don't know of any work-around for this poor performance except to reload an entirely new version of the frameset with each link - and that defeats the whole purpose of frames, doesn't it?

The only bright side is that IE 5 users won't be expecting anything better.