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Help! What's up with Frames?

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My main homepage for a website i am working on has 3 frames. What i've noticed is that if you click on a link inside whichever frame, a new page will pop up inside that frame. This is not what I want. How can i get the whole main page to change? It seems like the frames lock information inside them. How can I go by this? If I'm not clarifying myself, please ask specifically.

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If you want the whole page to load, why use frames? Frames are made so that only that section of the page gets updated, like you said it's doing now.

Word of advice: If you don't need to use frames, don't. I hate frames, as I disabled them on all my browsers (that can have them disabled). ~Javrix

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Try this.

<a href=&quot;pagewhatever.html&quot; target=&quot;new&quot;> Sara
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Thank you Sara, but before I try that; this is what the code looks like since the link is a highlight-button of a drop down menu:


dhtmlMenu.addItem(new NavBarMenuItem(&quot;Planning Guide&quot;, &quot;
so, when someone clicks on &quot;Planning Guide&quot; from the drop down menu, it will link to when someone clicks on &quot;Planning Guide&quot; the new linked page only loads in that frame (as mentioned previously). How can I alter the above code and merge it with your code
&quot;<a href=&quot;pagewhatever.html&quot; target=&quot;new&quot;>&quot; remember, I'm not sure if you can put a Tag in the code above, so i guess we would need to work on that.

thanks,
joel
 
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Is there any way you could show me the entire code? I think I can help you. Sara
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try putting this inbetween your <head> and </head> of each frame page...

Code: 
<BASE target=&quot;mainFrameName&quot;>

If you replace the text &quot;mainFrameName&quot; with the name of your main, largest frame then each link in each frame will load each linked page into it instead of into itself.

or if you do want to replace the entire frameset and have the link fulfill the entire page then replace the text with &quot;_top&quot; like this...

Code: 
<BASE target=&quot;_top&quot;>

Hope this helps... Klae

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Let me know if this is what you had in mind.


If it's what you want just take the source from the frameset page and from the top frame. Sara
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