Preserved Topic: frame whoas....

Hello all. Let me see if I can explan this, I do not have a copy online.

I have 2 frames, 1 named nav, 1 named content.

Obviously, I want to click the buttons in th "nav" frame, and the html page chosen to appear in the "content" frame. I have no problem with this.

In one link I have a script that will ask for a password to appear once the entire document is loaded. The script is located in the document that appears in the "content" frame. When the user enters a password, if it is correct, the correct page will load into the "content" frame, if it is incorrect, another page will load in the "content" frame. All of this works fine as well.

My problem arrives after the script has been executed. in order to load the page in the "content" frame, I would enter the following code:

top.content.location = yes.html;
I receive an error stating that "content" is not defined.

So I change the script to look like this:

top.frame[0].location = yes.html;
This works fine. But when you go back to the other links in the "nav" section, and click on them, the html files that they are associated with no longer appears in the "content" frame, it loads into a new window.

I have never had a problem like this, and I feel pretty lost. I assume that the problem is how I reference the frame name, because the problem does not occur until the script is done executing.

I would appreciate the help a whole lot, thanks a lot!!



[This message has been edited by timothymcnulty (edited 22-06-2000).]

Interesting. It sounds as though the window is not correctly named, although you've probably checked that already. If neither the links nor the JavaScript work on it... wait, try this; if there are frames outside of the 2 frames you're working with, then this should fix it (it should be done this way regardless): use parent.content.location rather than top.content.location.

Other than that, I can't think of the problem... as soon as you get that online, give us the address!

Yeah -- that's my only suggestion: parent.content.location rather than top.content.location

Here's another possibility. "content" might be a protected word in some situations, reserved for the javascript compiler. If the parent.content.location thing doesn't work, try changing your frame name to something more personal, like "XYzzY" or something unlikely to show up in part of the language.

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Hey all.

Well I tried:
parent.content.location;
and still had the same problem.

I renamed the "content" frame "stuff". I thought this might work. I do not receive an error now when I use: parent.stuff.location;

But(there is always a "but"), still when the links in the "nav" section are clicked, the specifed html document loads in a new window, rather than the "stuff" frame.

It is very strange. All of the links work fine, loading all of the documents in the "stuff" frame, until this password script is invoked.

The password script is in one of the html documents that loads into the "stuff" frame. When you click on the link in the "nav" frame, the html document loads into the "stuff" frame. I have the password script run once evrything is loaded, using what else, the onLoad() function. When the password is entered correctly or incorrectly, the specified html documents in the script also load just fine into the "stuff" frame. Then after the script is completely done executing, if you click on the links in the nav section, they will open in a new window.

Frankly, this scares the shit out of me, lol. I am about to throw my monitor out the window. If I get it online anytime soon I will for sure post the url. Until then, any suggestions would be much appreciated! Thanks a lot everyone.

-timothymcnulty

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[This message has been edited by timothymcnulty (edited 23-06-2000).]

OK, o I was wrong, well sort of. IE accepts parent.stuff, but netscape states that parent.stuff has no properties...(sigh)




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FINALLY!!! Ok, I figured it out. I used the parent.frames[0].name property to reveal the damn name of the frame AFTER the script had run. It turned out that the frame name was changing to the password. This happened because the variable that I used for the password was "name", therefore changing the frame "name" property to whatever was entered in the text field. I am sure glad this damn thing is over with. The struggle was worth the result, and I just learned from one more mistake. Thanks for your help!!!

timothymcnulty



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[This message has been edited by timothymcnulty (edited 23-06-2000).]