Refreshing a particular frame

[aleci]

Hi,
My site consists of 3 frames; a top frame, a lhs frame and a main frame.
The problem i am encountering is that if I click the broswers' refresh button, the whole frameset is reloaded and the user is returned to the index page (as defined in the frameset), regardless of the page they were on. Obviously undesirable!

However right clicking within the bottom frame and selecting refresh here gives me exactly the desired result.

My question is this; Is there any way i could make the browsers' refresh button mimic this action of right-clicking in the bottom frame and refreshing there ?

BTW, I am a Javascript novice
Any suggestions/tips will be hugely appreciated!

 

[baad]

well, here is a script that catches F5:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>
function fKeyCheck(e)
{
var charCode =(document.layers) ? e.witch : e.keyCode
var thestatus = charCode //Ascii code
  if (thestatus == 116){
//alert(&quot;F5&quot;);
e.keyCode = 0} 
  return false
}

document.onkeydown=function(){return fKeyCheck(event)}

</SCRIPT>

(tested in ie6 only, sorry)

& here is how to refresh bottom frame (bottom is a frame name)

top.frames.bottom.location.reload(1);

so, you could combine them into one function:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>
<!--
function fKeyCheck(e)
{
var charCode =(document.layers) ? e.witch : e.keyCode
var thestatus = charCode //Ascii code
  if (thestatus == 116){
//alert(&quot;F5&quot;);
e.keyCode = 0} 
top.frames.bottom.location.reload(1);
  return false
}

document.onkeydown=function(){return fKeyCheck(event)}
//-->
</SCRIPT>

hey, i'm not saying that this would 100% work everywhere, just a try.. Victor