How to specify target frame on another page

[stressball]

Hi,

I have 2 pages. The first page has a link to the second page, which is fine, but when the user clicks on the link I need the second page to open with a .htm also loading in the main frame of the second page.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[iza]

<a href=url target=framename>link to open url in framename</a>

 

[stressball]

iza

Thanks for your reply, I would like to get this working using just HTML, but what you said does not work.
When the user clicks on the button on the first page I need the second frameset.htm to open, when that frameset opens, I need index.htm to be visible in the main frame.

<a href=&quot;pages/page_frameset.htm&quot; -(the frame set to load)
target=&quot;pages/test.htm#mainFrame&quot; -(the page to load in main)
</a>

This does not work, it displays the frameset, but main is empty.

Your help would be most appreciated

 

[iza]

pages/test.htm#mainFrame is NOT a frame name !!!

say you have this in mymainframeset.htm
<frameset ...>
<frame name=main src=new_url.htm>
<frame name=top src=url.htm ...>
</framset>

now you're in url.htm (in the frame named &quot;top&quot, and you want to change the CONTENT of the frame named &quot;main&quot;, right ?
simply do <a href=&quot;new_url2.htm&quot; target=&quot;main&quot;>link</a>

now you're somewhere else, framed or non framed, and you want the frameset to appear with new_url.htm inside main, right ?
just call <a href=mymainframeset.htm>link</a>

sounds like you need to reread the doc anyway !!!

 

[mj09]

what is the difference between the &quot;_top&quot; and &quot;_parent&quot; for the target attribute of the Anchor tag? They seem to be doing the same of opening the link in the whole window. Using Javascript &quot;parent.&quot; you can target the individual frames but how is this done using _parent in html

e.g <a href=&quot;

http://xy.com&quot;

target=&quot;_parent&quot;>link</a>

When I read the explanation for &quot;_parent&quot;, the books say that when used with frames it opens up the document in the parent window or parent frame of the current frame.... but no matter which child-frame i use this attribute the page opens in the whole window...

Would appreciate some help with examples.

Thank you

 

[stressball]

Thanks for your help, but I don't think you understand what I'm trying to do, I've solved it by using separate framesets for my separate purposes for this web site.

 

[iza]

mj : top is the TOPMOST frame, whereas parent is jsut the upper one
see here

<frameset ... name = 2>
<frame ...>


<frameset ...name = 1>
<frame ...>
<frame ...>
</frameset>


</framest>


if i'm in one of the 'blue' frames, parent is the blue frameset (name=1), whereas top is the RED one (name=2)
now if i'm in the red frame, parent AND top are the same frameset (name=2) - so yes it's the same if you only have 1 level or are at the topmost level
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stressball : yes that was the second solution i suggested in my previous post - as it was unclear if you were in a framed part or not