Frames: How to find out urls

JackTheRussel · Jan 19, 2009

Hi.

I have page where I have two frames

index.html

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">[/URL]
<html>
<head><title>My Frames</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="40%,60%">

<frame src="myUp.html" name="upframe">
<frame src="MyDown.html" name="downframe">

</frameset>
</html>

How can I find out in upframe.html, what is the location.href in downframe ?

I have tried solution like this:

MyUp.html

Code:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">

var protocol = downframe.location.protocol;
var url = downframe.location.href;

document.write("Downframe address is " + url + " and the protocol is " + protocol + ".");
</script>
</head>
</html>

But this isn't workin.

I just get: downframe is not defined ?

I haven't use js much and I'm totally lost.

Can someone guide me?

feherke · Jan 19, 2009

Hi

The downframe is not child of myUp.html, but child of index.html. So referring to it from myUp.html must specify this too :

Code:

var protocol = [red]parent.[/red]downframe.location.protocol;
var url = [red]parent.[/red]downframe.location.href;

Note that if the first frame will load before the second frame, so the JavaScript code will be executed before having a document in downframe, your script will fail.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

JackTheRussel · Jan 19, 2009

Thanks for your help feherke !

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Frames: How to find out urls

JackTheRussel

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