How to open a side window (frame)

Keep current window not refreshed

[flashfan]

In page A (current page) there is a link OPEN. click on it, the browser looks like:

Page A?Page B

page B is opened in the side window (frame). A and B stays side by side. Since A is loaded, I don't want A is reloaded. How to do this?

[Birdman]

You need to target the other frame.

<a href="/somelink/" target="my_frame">

You must name the frames on the main page to do this.

<frame name="my_frame" src="/somefile">

[edited by: Birdman at 3:21 am (utc) on June 30, 2004]

[flashfan]

First view
Page A

Second view:
Page A ¦ Page B

The second one is just to wrap page A and to open a side window B.

[tedster]

Then Page A must be "wrapped" the first time it loads, with Page B holding a null document perhaps. Otherwise the browser MUST redraw Page A in its new configuration, even if it uses the cached HTML to do it.

[flashfan]

So you mean, the framset should be built at the very begining and put a placeholder for page B?

[tedster]

Exactly - otherwise there must be a refresh/redraw of the page because you're loading a new document