Reloading a frame without onClick?

[eclipse33]

I have a site done in frames. Is there a way to reload one frame (ex: sidebar) while inside the main.asp frame. I am changing a boolean in the main frame and the navigation on the sidebar frame depends on the value of this boolean...therefore it needs to be reloaded.

I can do it with the click on a link but I want to do it within the code.



<FRAMESET COLS=&quot;135,*&quot; FRAMEBORDER=&quot;NO&quot; BORDER=&quot;0&quot; FRAMESPACING=&quot;0&quot;>
<FRAME NAME=&quot;sidebar&quot; SCROLLING=&quot;NO&quot; leftmargin=&quot;0&quot; topmargin=&quot;0&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; frameborder=&quot;no&quot; SRC=&quot;sidebar.asp&quot;>
<FRAME NAME=&quot;main&quot; SCROLLING=&quot;YES&quot; leftmargin=&quot;5&quot; topmargin=&quot;5&quot; marginwidth=&quot;5&quot; marginheight=&quot;5&quot; frameborder=&quot;no&quot; SRC=&quot;main.asp&quot;>
</FRAMESET>

 

[toolkit]

If your left frame has a target name of 'menu' then either:

top.frames[0].location.reload();

OR:

top.frames[ 'menu' ].location.reload();

Should work. Cheers, Neil

 

[eclipse33]

Thanks Neil...one more thing

The code below gave me an error (object doesn't exist or is null)...(sidebar is the right name for the frame)

top.frames['sidebar'].location.reload();


but if I changed the 0 with a 2 it worked ok

top.frames[2].location.reload();

This is the first page I have done in frames so excuse my lack of frame knowledge...