Frames and Javaacrip Variables

[NikP]

Hi guys...wondering if anyone can help on this one.

I have a page call index.html which is a frameset. The two frames within it are called content.html and navigation.html.

In the navigation frame I have a title. The title changes when the user clicks in the navigation frame on a section.

What i need to be able to do is the same from the content frame namely content.html i.e when I click a subject in the content frame the title in the navigation frame changes.

I have used layers and I can get the title to change if I click on each PAGE but if I click on one section on the content and then on another in the navigation the layer does not hide and i get two layers showing...

Code

function changeTop(section)

{

parent.navigation.document.all[layerShowing].style.visibility="hidden"
parent.navigation.document.all[section].style.visibility="visible"
layerShowing=section

}

can anyone help I know its confusing! but if anyone can help it would be a great help

nik

 

[iza]

because layerShowing is not a GLOBAL variable - meaning it gets re-init each time you reload (change) page

3 solutions :
- put it in an embedded file
- put it in a hidden field :
<form name=helper><input type=hidden name=layerShowing></form>
and change your function to :
parent.navigation.document.all[document.helper.layerShowing.value].style.visibility=&quot;hidden&quot;
parent.navigation.document.all[section].style.visibility=&quot;visible&quot;
document.helper.layerShowing.value=section
- put it in a hidden frame (almost the same that the hidden fieldtrick)

let me know