Dynamically chaning Alternate Style Sheets in Inline Frames

[Safacto]

Hi,

I wish to be able to allow the user to change the style sheet which the site uses, and make this change work within an IFRAME.

To explain, the site (

http://www.civsoc.co.uk/)

has a selector to let the user change to an Alternate Style Sheet. This preference is then saved in a cookie, and used the next time the user visits the site.

However, I have been unable to write a script for which the *.htm documents in the central IFrame can reference this cookie to determine which style sheet to use.

Is there a way of doing this easily??

Cheers,
Richard.

 

[crazyboybert]

try using

var chocchip = parent.document.cookie;

inside the iframe.

I havent tested this and dont know if it works but do know ou can call a function held in the parent document with

parent.myFunction();

so am guessing this will work for cookies too.

good luck

rob

 

[Safacto]

Hummm.... I've just tried the parenting you suggest, but the pages in the iframe don't "recognise" the new cookie untill the page is refreshed (i.e. F5). A simple reloading of the iframe doesn't work, the whole page/screen must be refreshed.

Putting a reload() function in is a bit excessive for what I need.