Frames keep closing

[henhole]

I'm in the process of making a website for my company where the people who work there get on it and there is a navagation bar across the top, from there they can select different things. Durning most of the day they have internet exploer opened with our navagation bar across the top and someone elses page in the "main" frame. Durning the day our navagation bar just disaapears in thin air. I talked to the webmaster of the other site and he said he didn't have anything that busted internet exploer out of frames. You guys have any idea how I can prevent the navagation bar from being closed in my frameset?

[tedster]

Well, something is doing a frame-buster act -- if it isn't a framebusting javascript it may just be a link somewhere with target="_top".

If you try to override that, you run the risk of creating an infinite loop. At the very least, you would be denying your users access to the frame-busting page.

I think you need to locate the source of this behavior rather than try to override it.

[henhole]

What would be a good way of finding the site that is busting it? I found that one of the sites they visit has a tagert="_TOP" but my top frame is not even close to being called that.

[tedster]

Correct me if I misunderstood - I thought your users were in a controlled environment and there is just one other site in the frame. Plus, you are in communication with the webmaster for that other site.

I know he said he doesn't have any framebuster scripts (that's probably a good bet -he would know), so he should be willing to do a search for the "target=" attribute and find any potential problem pages. If that doesn't uncover the problem, you might talk to some of your more savvy users and ask them to notice when the navigation frame vanishes.

However, if I misunderstood and your users have a wider range than just one site, then option two is about all I can offer you. If your users really miss the navigation frame and you can't find the source of the problem, you might give them a bookmark to return to the framed set-up.

And you might also just poke around, navigating for yourself. If this happens frequently, then you may just stumble over it.

[henhole]

Thanks, I found a problem one of his targets where is was just like my top frame on my site, all solved now.