manipulating anchors in a different frame

[UCENwebster]

I have two frames: one is a menu, and the other is a long text document with anchors. I want the links in the menu frame to control the position of the document in the text frame, using the anchors. I've tried this:

<a href=&quot;#anchorname&quot; target=&quot;textframe&quot;>Link</a>

but it doesn't work. Then I tried:

<a href=&quot;textdoc.html#anchorname&quot; target=&quot;textframe&quot;>Link</a>

That worked, but the text document refreshed itself every time, and it's a pretty big documnet, so the download time is forever. I want the text document to just move to the anchor without refreshing. Does anybody know how to do this?

thanks in advance
Webster

 

[spewn]

try this...

opener.location.href='#anchorname'

or a variation of...

this will reference the parent window from which the control window opened from, and move the page to the anchor mentioned...

hope that helps...

- spewn

 

[starway]

Try another way: there's a scroll() method that scrolls the window.
[tt]
window.scroll (down, 200)
[/tt]
Try to use it in your frames. Read here more about it:

http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/projects/docserver/window/scroll