Wan't to know wich button the user pressed.

delpierro · Mar 12, 2007

Please can someone help me with this.
The first frame i called 'side' and contains a little menu
The second frame is the content of the choosen menu-item.

I want to know if a user pressed the 'add record' button from the menu (side-frame) or the 'save to database' button from the content-frame

Here is the code:

index.htm (frameset)
<html>
<head>
<title>framespage</title>
</head>

<frameset rows="100%" frameborder="0" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frameset cols="175,86%">
<frame src="side.asp" name="side" id="side" title="side" scrolling="no" noresize / marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" target="_side">
<frame name="content" src="content.asp" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="auto" target="_self">
</frameset>
<noframes>
<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0">
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

side.asp
<html>
<head>
</head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function Goto(Page)
{
parent.content.document.location.href = Page;
}
</script>
<body bgcolor="#008000">
<p><input type="button" value="Home" name="cmd_home" onclick=""></p>
<p><input type="button" value="add record" name="cmd_add" onclick="Goto('record_add.asp?new=1')"></p>
<p><input type="button" value="Login" name="cmd_login" onclick=""></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><b><font color="#FFFFFF">this is the side frame</font></b></p>
</html>

content.asp
<html>
<head>
<title>content</title>
<base target="_self">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#800000">
<p><b><font color="#FFFFFF">this is the content frame</font></b></p>
</html>

record_add.asp
<html>
<body bgcolor="#800000">
<form method="POST">
<p><input type="text" name="txt_text1" size="20"></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Save to database" name="cmd_save"></p>
</form>
<p><b><font color="#FFFFFF">this is the content frame</font></b></p>
</html>

monksnake · Mar 12, 2007

When do you want to know this? before redirect, after redirect??

[monkey]

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delpierro · Mar 12, 2007

before redirect

kaht · Mar 12, 2007

You could set up in the onclick handler of each button to set a flag in the main page to keep track of which button is pressed. Unfortunately there is no way for javascript to track which button is checked automatically, so you have to have a variable keep track of the information. Since you're using frames, it will be a little bit more complicated (probably best idea to keep the tracking variable in the main page and use parent.variableName to access it), but this is the general idea:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[/URL]
<head>
<title>title test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<script type="text/javascript">

var whichButton = "";

</script>
<style type="text/css"></style>
</head>
<body>

<input type="button" value="1" name="buttonNumber1" onclick="whichButton = this.name; alert(whichButton)" /><br /><br />
<input type="button" value="2" name="buttonNumber2" onclick="whichButton = this.name; alert(whichButton)" />

</body>
</html>

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delpierro · Mar 12, 2007

thanks, this will help me!!

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