Refresh A Frame. 1

[ddfff]

I have the following html code.

<a href=&quot;mypage.cfm?supplycategory=#id#&quot; target=&quot;requestform&quot;>category</a>

This reloads the specified page in the specified iframe without reloading the parent page. It does exacly as I want it to do.

However, in addition to functioning as it does, I would also like this action to ALSO reload another frame. Basically, on click, both frame #1 (requestform) and frame #2 would reload in the parent page.

Suggesions are more than welcome and thank you in advance.

If nothing else, maybe I can use the javascript &quot;onclick&quot; equivalent of the above tag? Don't know.

 

[jemminger]

try

<a href=&quot;mypage.cfm?supplycategory=#id#&quot; target=&quot;requestform&quot; onclick=&quot;parent.top.otherFrameName.location.reload();&quot;>category</a>

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-jeff

http://www.jeffemminger.com

try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); }

 

[ddfff]

I think that is almost what I need. How would I alter the code slightly to reference the page name instead of just reload?

Thanks again.

 

[jemminger]

you'd have to parse location.href or location.pathname

i'm not sure what difference it's going to make though between doing this and just calling reload()

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-jeff

http://www.jeffemminger.com

try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); }

 

[ddfff]

I got it working now. Thank You.

 

[Forri]

jemminger thanks for your reply it saved me lots of time.....star for you!

Nick

 

[karnaf]

Is there a way of refresing the frame but without reposting the data?

I have a page with two frames. main frame with a form, menu frame with some menu buttons, one of which is the interface language.

this is what I want:
1. submit the form in the main frame.
2. change the language in the menu frame - reload the main frame but without reposting the data.

I can't find a solution to that. I need the globals that pass in the url line, but I don't want the posted data to be posted again...

any help?

 

[jemminger]

if the main frame was actually POSTed to, and you want to reload it (GET) while preserving querystring params, try "changing" its location to its current location:

parent.top.frames["mainFrameName"].location.href = parent.top.frames["mainFrameName"].location.href;

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-jeff

http://www.jeffemminger.com

try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); } finally { rtfm(); }

 

[karnaf]

thanks!!

almost did the job fully. I also had to take care of keeping passed variables to the main frame in the form's action part.

(for those speaking PHP - I needed to keep the $GLOBALS but lose the $_POST vars )

again, thanks for the fast help.

 

[karnaf]

OK, ran into another problem with this...

I use parent.top.main.location.href = parent.top.main.location.href; from another frame (menu) in the same window, and it works great until I open a pop up window. After that it doesn't work anymore, no matter if the pop up is open or not. It starts working again after loading a fresh page to 'main' frame.
The word 'main' is not mentioned anywhere in the pop up or in its opening (no override, if that's at all possible)

Did I miss something here?

Thanks!

 

[jemminger]

try referencing it by index instead of name. for example, if it is the second frame defined in the frameset, then it is index 1

parent.top.frames[1].location.href = parent.top.frames[1].location.href;

also, see if you get any errors when using either method...try using mozilla firefox - it has better js error reporting.

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-jeff

http://www.jeffemminger.com

try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); } finally { rtfm(); }

 

[karnaf]

still not working.
if I check what parent.top.main.location.href contains, I get the correct href and the firfox javascript console shows no errors, but the refreshing doesn't work...

weird.

thanks.