Link to open in parent window?

[budgy]

Hopefully there is a easy solution to this problem...

I want the link in this bit of coding to open in the parent window. Thanks

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
var imgs = new Array("home/images/bulletin/cheif_awards/cheifawards.jpg")
var alt = new Array("Chief Executive Awards for 2005-2006")
var links = new Array ("

http://....co.uk/HeadOffice/..../English_Stories/2006/jan/chief.html")

Thanks in advance!!

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[BabyJeffy]

What link would that be then? You have three arrays (containing a single string each) being defined.

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[budgy]

Hey babyjeffy,..

The link in question is this one...

var links = new Array ("

http://....co.uk/HeadOffice/..../English_Stories/2006/jan/chief.html")

I want the link in this array to open up on a parent window. thanks!!

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[ca8msm]

Try setting the parent's url via parent.location.href


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[budgy]

ca8msm could you please perhaps expand on that?.. how would i go about doing that?...

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[ca8msm]

parent.location.href="

http://...";

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[budgy]

hey thanks ca8msn, i tried doing that....but when ever tht bit of coding is entered the page automatically loads to that link, without anything being pressed.... :S is there a way a round this perhaps?

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[ca8msm]

You asked how to open the parent window to a particular url and that's what it does. I don't understand why you now don't want that to happen?


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[budgy]

ca8sms so sorry for the misunderstanding, i would like that link to open up when the picture it is attached to is clicked, at the moment when the page loads up, with ur piece of coding it, it just goes stright through to the link.

Once again my apologies for the confusion. i appreciate your guildence.

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[ca8msm]

So when you say "parent" do you actually mean a new browser window?


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[budgy]

... when i say parent i mean i want that link, when clicked on to open up on the current window, not a new browser window. What i have done is iframed this bit of coding which involves the rotation of some images and text into the main default page. The problem is that when a link is clicked from this iframed page, the link opens up within the constraints of the iframe , rather than opening up on the whole page, which is what i want.. I hope this makes it clearer...

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[BabyJeffy]

How about you post a URL. We cannot go any further with this problem until you show us your [!]client-side source code[/!] preferably a URL to the page so we can see ALL the different things that could be interacting with it.

The questions you are asking are fine - but you are not providing us with the information we require to solve this problem. You will (at the very least) need to show us the javascript code that builds these URLs from the array variables you have provided.

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[LFI]

In the IMG tag in the IFRAME, include on ONCLICK event that calls a function (also in the IFRAME page).

In the function, include ca8msm's suggestion and you should be set.

This is just one way. Let us know if you need expansion on any of these points.

Dave


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[budgy]

Dave, could you give me a expansion please, i understand that a onclick event would help, but im not sure how i would impliment it.

This is how my iframe link looks :

<IFRAME NAME="linkframe" SRC="main_story.htm" WIDTH="488" HEIGHT="185" FRAMEBORDER="0" MARGINHEIGHT="0" MARGINWIDTH="0" scrolling="no"></IFRAME>



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[LFI]

Somewhere in the HTML of the page that is in your IFRAME, you have something like:

<img src='myImg.gif' />

...and you're interesting in clicking on that and getting a reaction. So add the ONCLICK event by:

<img src='myImg.gif' [red]onclick='loadUrlInParent()'[/red] />

...where 'loadUrlInParent()' is an arbitrarily named function that you will write and stick in the HEAD section of the same page.

In that function , use ca8msm's suggestion for loading the URL in the parent.


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