Frames & Internal Links

RedDucati748 · Mar 15, 2004

Looking for a little help with my problem below. I have one page with two frames and the frames should link internally. However, instead of the left frame linking to the desired section in the right frame, the right frame data replaces the data in the left frame. I'm trying to create a table of contents in the left frame and a link those contents to those corresponding sections in the second frame. I can get it to work with a page and one frame, but not frame to frame.
Thanks-

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MAIN PAGE:

<html>
<head>
<title>main</title>
</head>

<body>

<iframe name="left" src="left" height="400">Not supported by browser.</iframe><iframe name="right" src="right" width="450" height="400">
Not supported by browser.</iframe>



</body>
</html>

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LEFT FRAME:

<html>
<head>
<title>left</title>
</head>

<body>

Pet Information

<ul>

<li>
<a href="right.html#birds">Birds</a></li>

<li>
<a href="right.html#cats">Cats</a></li>

<li>
<a href="right.html#dogs">Dogs</a></li>

<li>
<a href="right.html#fish">Fish</a></li>

</ul>

</body>
</html>

----------------------------------------------------------------------

RIGHT FRAME:

<html>
<head>
<title>right</title>
</head>

<body>

<ul>

<li>
Birds</li>

</ul>

     <ul>

<li>
Cats</li>

</ul>

     <ul>

<li>
Dogs</li>

</ul>

     <ul>

<li>
Fish</li>

</ul>

     

</body>
</html>

Vragabond · Mar 15, 2004

Your frames have names, left and right, and when you create links you must reference this names in order to tell in which frame you wish them opened. You do this by adding target attribute to your <a> tag. So change your code to read:

<a href="right.html#birds" target="right">Birds</a>

and the same for all the other links. Hope it helps.

RedDucati748 · Mar 15, 2004

Vragabond,

It worked perfect!

Thanks-

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