Different browsers open framesets differently?

dragonite2 · Jul 19, 2006

I created a frameset so that, when clicking on a link in the left frame, a page opens to the right frame of the frameset. THis works fine when I preview it and when viewed in safari. However, when using a browser like explorer or netscape, it opens the page in a new window, instead of to the right frame of the frameset. Is there any way to control this so that a new window does not open? WHen it does, it leaves the right area of my frameset blank (where the page should appear). PLEASE HELP!!! THANKS!

Cheech · Jul 20, 2006

can you post a link or the code please

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kaht · Jul 20, 2006

do you have a target attribute set on your frame?

something like:

Code:

<frame ...blahblah... [!]target="_new"[/!]>

If so, remove it and that will stop happening.

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dragonite2 · Jul 20, 2006

okay...i have the target set for "rightFrame", the title of the frame i would like the page to open in....

i tried to copy the code into this message, but something is awry with my Dreamweaver. whenever I click Edit, this message comes up that ends in "exception thrown in native function", and I can't even use the keyboard shortcut to copy it in. i don't know what this is about.

anyhow, here is a link to the page...please click "projects" and then click one of the projects listed to see the problem.

http://www.urbanstudio-la.com/pages/frameset1.html

thanks for your help!

Cheech · Jul 21, 2006

You sure it shouldn't be mainFrame that you target?

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dragonite2 · Jul 21, 2006

no, i purposely retitled the mainFrame to "rightFrame" because I already used the mainFrame title on the larger frame that includes the top navigation bar.

i believe that if i used mainFrame as the target, I would lose the left frame that include the vertical navigation bar.

thanks though!

Cheech · Jul 24, 2006

Looking at your frameset source you dont have a rightFrame defined

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[/URL]
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<frameset rows="86,*" cols="*" framespacing="0" frameborder="no" border="0">
  <frame src="frametop.html" name="topFrame" scrolling="no" noresize="NORESIZE" marginheight="0" id="topFrame" title="topFrame" />
  <frame src="imagehome.html" name="mainFrame" id="mainFrame" title="mainFrame" />
</frameset>
<noframes><body>
</body>
</noframes></html>

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olliel · Jul 25, 2006

I also have a similar problem. I have created a frameset on dreamweaver using a large monitor, whem uploaded it appears fine to me, but when viewing on smaller screens, it shrinks. Frame are then not included and i lose the whole frameset layout.

Here is the site :

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/simonwebspace

hope someone can help, this is rather urgent.

thanks.
ollie

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