Preserved Topic: Location = Target? :(

Ok, I'm wanting to redirect to another page with JS but I want it to break out of frames. I'm currently using:

location = "url.html"

But I'm using this inside a framed page.

Is their any way to specify what frame to open the new page in? Even just to break out of the frames completly will do.

Thanks in advance.

everybody needs a swamp bear

I think it's
top.window.location.href = 'wherever.com'


Walking the Earth like Kane

EXECELENT!

That worked like a charm, thanks bitdamaged.



everybody needs a swamp bear

Edit: A two line post and I still F*&K it up!!!!

[This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 06-28-2001).]

Oh I didn't mention to specify a specific frame you need to name the frame in yourframest

<frame name="theFrame" ...

then the easiest way is to start at the "top" and work your way down.

top.theFrame.location = 'whatever.com';

If you have embeded frames you would do this
top.frameset.theFrame.location.href... etc.

Top puts you at the very "top" level from which it's relatively easy to work your way down.

Not to get confusing but the other relevant name is parent which refers to the parent doc (up one level). parent.location.href=' whatever.com'; should also have worked for you but I think "top" is better and easier.


Walking the Earth like Kane

Yeah cool. In my case I'm using a page with... let me count 5 frames (I'm centering a box in the middle of the browser window) but there is a limited amount of content in some of the other frames at times. So to hide the ugly html names I've also used a single frame document which encloses the entire site.

So, it's a 5 frame document inside a one frame document. But I've figured things out. Thanks again for that extra info, I'm sure it will come in handy

And I know what I'm doing with this frames is usualy a bad practice (is stop's people from bookmarking a particular page in the site doesn;t it?? or does it not?? ) but it's a tiny site anyways...

everybody needs a swamp bear

if (parent.frames[1]){ top.location.href = self.location.href; }

This will cause your page to break out of someone elses frameset.

Your pal, -doc-

Hey thanks Doc! that'll come in handy

everybody needs a swamp bear

Thanks.

The solutions all work but only where JavaScript is enabled. I believe this works in all circumstances:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Window-target" CONTENT="_top">

Emps

Emps, how do you specify the number of secs after which I want the redirection to happen?

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="5; URL=http://www.newlocation.com/">

This is how you can redirect a page after 5 seconds. I don't know how, or if, this works in conjunction with the solution Emps gave.

Bugmis, I know that method...but Emps method seems capable of escaping from frames...

can what you wrote escape from frames too? by reloading into a specified target?