website roadmap

[shades44]

hello,

i'm trying to create a navigation path (roadmap) that shows users where they are in my website.. i have two frames, one is the main frame where the pages are loaded and the other is the contents frame and where i want my roadmap path to appear. My question is this: i want my contents frame to listen to my main frame and modify the roadmap string (for example: Home/Products/ ets..) everytime a new page is loaded. This doesnt work:

//Contents Frame
window.parent.document.frames[1].onload=alert;

I've heard that with frames things get a bit messy. Can anyone help?

 

[chessbot]

How are you planning to modify the roadmap string? Do you already have a Javascript function to do it?

--Chessbot

"In that blessed region of Four Dimensions, shall we linger on the threshold of the Fifth, and not enter therein? Ah, no! [...] Then, yielding to our intellectual onset, the gates of the Sixth Dimension shall fly open; after that a Seventh, and then an Eighth -- --" Flatland, A. Square (E. A. Abbott)

 

[shades44]

yeah that's all taken care of.. all i need to be alerted on is everytime the main frame is reloaded so i can do what i need to do in the contents frame.

 

[chessbot]

On every main page, include a js file such as "roadmap.js".
The contents?

onload = parent.frames['contentsFrame'].location.reload;
// or change name of frame if necessary

--Chessbot

"In that blessed region of Four Dimensions, shall we linger on the threshold of the Fifth, and not enter therein? Ah, no! [...] Then, yielding to our intellectual onset, the gates of the Sixth Dimension shall fly open; after that a Seventh, and then an Eighth -- --" Flatland, A. Square (E. A. Abbott)

 

[shades44]

im desperately trying to avoid having to go to every main page because there are close to a hundred.. but i'm beginning to see that's the only way.