Creating empty frames

[philcha]

Suppose you want to creae a frameset where 1 frame is initially empty, e.g. because it's going to be filled in response to user action in another frame.<br><br>IE presents no problem&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;you can create a frame with no SRC attribute and IE will display a blank area and allow you to fill it via e.g. Javascript.<br><br>Netscape's something else!<br>*&nbsp;&nbsp;you must give the empty frame a SRC attribute, otherwise NN won't create the frame object and, when you try to refer to it in Javascript, you'll get errors like &quot;frame_name has no properties.&quot;<br>*&nbsp;&nbsp;you must put something in the SRC attribute&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;SRC=&quot;&quot; causes NN to display the directory listing!<br>*&nbsp;&nbsp;the something must exist, otherwise you'll get a 404 error in the empty frame.<br>*&nbsp;&nbsp;so create a dummy page and set the empty frame's SRC to point to this.&nbsp;&nbsp;The dummy page can contain either &quot;watch this space text&quot; or whitespace.<br>