Passing ASP variables to frames

[NikP]

Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I can pass a value from a form into another page which has frames..etc to a particular frame... i have tried using the target"_framename" option and cant get it to work..
my action attribute for the form is as follows...

<form method=post action=&quot;../DD/searchdesc.asp&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;>

where searchdesc.asp is a frameset...

thanks for any suggestions

nik

 

[jonelf]

According to

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/frames.html#adef-target

you should be able to submit forms to another frame.

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/values.html#frametarget

Maybe you shouldn't name your frame with a _ in the beginning?

If the form is posted to a whole new set of frames then I guess the page with the frameset will have to handle it.
It could read the post and then pass it as a querystring to the frame.

Something like:

<FRAMESET COLS=&quot;40%,*&quot;>
<FRAME NAME=&quot;Menu&quot; SRC=&quot;nav.html&quot; TITLE=&quot;Menu&quot;>
<FRAME NAME=&quot;Content&quot;
SRC=&quot;main.html?value=<%=Request.Form(&quot;postedvalue&quot%>
&quot; TITLE=&quot;Content&quot;>
</FRAMESET>