How do I open page with another page loaded in frame

[stressball]

Hi,

I have 2 pages. The first page has a link to the second page, which is fine, but when the user clicks on the link I need the second page to open with a .htm also loading in the main frame of the second page.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[sirugo]

Sorry, could you explain with some code or more carefully, please!
I do not understand what you want it to do.

 

[harmmeijer]

Let's say your main page has 3 frames like so:
<frame id=&quot;topnav&quot; src=&quot;topnav.asp&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot;>
<frame id=&quot;search&quot; name=&quot;search&quot; src=&quot;Search.asp&quot; scrolling=&quot;auto&quot;>
<frame id=&quot;results&quot; name=&quot;results&quot; src=&quot;Results.asp?status=blanc&quot;>

to display another htm page in the results frame you can use the following line(only IE):
document.all.item(&quot;rsults&quot.src=&quot;myNewUrl.htm&quot;

 

[iza]

ok but there's a very simple, standard (meaning : actually cross browser) solution in plain html
<a href=mynewurl.htm target=rsults>go to</a>
it is not elegant neither safe to use fancy javascript when there are plenty of plain html solutions

 

[harmmeijer]

Yes but if your page is a little bit more dynamic you might need some script like so:
document.all.item(&quot;rsults&quot; + myCounter).src=&quot;myNewUrl.asp?ID=&quot; + myCounter

I used it in several of my IIS application and got no problems with it yet (everybody uses IE so I got lazy checking the Netscape side of it)

Setting a target in the <form> tag can allso give wonderfully confusing results if the form is not submitted but a popup is called (the target starts showing something when it shoudn't) So I am used to set as many values by script to prevent unexpected things from happening.

 

[stressball]

iza

Thanks for your reply, I would like to get this working using just HTML, but what you said does not work.
When the user clicks on the button on the first page I need the second frameset.htm to open, when that frameset opens, I need index.htm to be visible in the main frame.

<a href=&quot;pages/page_frameset.htm&quot; -(the frame set to load)
target=&quot;pages/test.htm#mainFrame&quot; -(the page to load in main)
</a>

This does not work, it displays the frameset, but main is empty.

Your help would be most appreciated

 

[iza]

i replied in the other thread you've started. It's very confusing if ou start 2 threads for the same question.