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| Article by: |  Jeff Anderson ( 1362 ) (3/25/2002) |
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| Summary: | How to specify frames and how to break out of them using standard link tags. |
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_Parent _self _blank _top Frame Target Specifications
Specifying the correct frame in your link tags seems one of the trickier aspects of HTML for beginners to
get to grips with, but in fact it's not that difficult.
Calling specific frames
If you want a link to change the page in another frame (for example in our frame navigation tutorial
we had a left hand navigation frame which changes the right hand content frame), you need to give each frame its own name, and
then specify that name in the link. Here's how the frameset might appear:
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>My First Frame Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET COLS="25%,75%">
<FRAME NAME="navigation" SRC="navigation_page.htm">
<FRAME NAME="content" SRC="content_page.htm">
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
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Each of our two frame pages has it's own NAME attribute. Now here is the code for a link within the navigation frame
which causes a new page to load within the content pain:
<a href="new_content.htm" target="content">New Content Page Link Text</a>
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The target attribute is what does the trick here. It tells the browser that the frame labelled 'content' should be loaded
with the new page "new_content.htm".
Using target="_top"
target="_top" within a link tag causes the new page to load in the full body of the window, which is useful if you ever
want to break out of the frameset you have created and have a frameless page.
Using target="_parent"
target="_parent" is similar to target="_top" but will refer to the immediate parent of a frame. In more advanced frame usage
there may be several nested frames and this allows more control over which frames are specified. (It's actually something developers rarely need to use).
Using target="_blank"
target="_blank" causes the link to open in a totally new browser window, leaving the page with the refering link still open behind it.
Unlike Javascript pop ups, however, the developer has no control over the size of the resulting window - it just depends what the browser happened to do
the last time they shut their browser down!
Using target="_self"
target="_self" loads the page within the same frame as the link tag.
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Posted by :
 Archive Import (pox) at 05:22 on Monday, February 17, 2003
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frame navigation page doesnt load,,sort it man
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Posted by :
Archive Import (Leigh) at 11:00 on Monday, March 31, 2003
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I've created a site using frames and I'm looking to control the "mainFrame" from the "bottomFrame" navigation. I want the "bottomFrame" navigation "totop" button to bring you to the top of the "mainFrame" frame (which scrolls depending how long the content is).
Keep in mind that the content changes in the "mainFrame" so I can't direct it to a url but rather I want to direct it to go to top of the
"mainFrame".
Any suggestions on how to script? javascript?
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Posted by :
Archive Import (Dude) at 19:32 on Friday, May 09, 2003
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How do you place an image behind the inline frame and make links that go into it? Using only one image? So I need an image map, right
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Posted by :
Archive Import (Collette ) at 17:40 on Saturday, May 10, 2003
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In answer to Leigh's question--
use an anchor.
At the top of the html document that your frameset calls ("page.html",) add an anchor:
<.a name="totop"><./a>
(take out the dots)
Then change the link in your "bottomFrame" to something like:
<.a href="page.html#totop" target="mainFrame">To Top<./a>
It may be too late to help you, perhaps someone else may need this answer.
Collette McNeill
McNeill/Lynner WebWorks
<a href="http://www.mlwebworks.com">http://www.mlwebworks.com</a>
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Posted by :
Archive Import (don schlilling) at 17:20 on Monday, June 09, 2003
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Do you know of a way to to use the target command inside a meta refresh? So I could redirect a user to an entire new frame set automaticly.
Thanks
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Posted by :
 shawnmyers at 10:00 on Friday, October 17, 2003
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In a nested frame how would you code so that a new linked url wipes out the frames and takes over the whole browser? That is I done want the address bar to have http://***.com/myindex.html with a new page in one of my frames I want the window to only have a new url and page like http://www.codetoad.com/
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Posted by :
asiastar at 11:18 on Sunday, May 01, 2005
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hello, I'm trying to get linked URL's to open from one Browser window into another.
from the main browser I have serveral slide shows links. so when I click on them now they will open a new:"blank" each time.
filling up the screen with browsers,
How can I tell the main browser to use the same "Blank" that it had just made for the last slide show." ?
You can go to the site to see what I mean. its a flash site so I hope you have it installed. You will need to click the first film strip to see a gallery. click one of the images to open a slide show.
http://www.fultonstudio.com/fl/main.html
Thanks for your help.
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Posted by :
goitalone at 00:11 on Thursday, November 23, 2006
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can someone please help me get this straightend out? :(
I am putting this online bible up and I have the it all set up right cept for I cant
figure out how to get the bible verses, chapters etc, to load into the second frame..
so far I have only been able to get it to go into a new window and in its own frame.
take a look at my souce here please and help me figure it out...driving me nuts..I spent
all day trying to get it right :(
thanks,
new member and iframes script newbie
<Added>
oops...the url is here:
http://bible.infotipper.com/frames.html
it also has a chat screen if you want, leave me a message in there if ya want!!
thanks
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Posted by :
skier at 05:30 on Saturday, November 10, 2007
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I am using a single <iframe> on the bottom of mainpage.asp to display searching tools contained on searchpage.asp. Once I have located the record using searchpage.asp, I am using a redirect in searchpage.asp to send the control back to mainpage.asp. The problem is: When it returns to mainpage.asp, it draws it inside the iframe of the original mainpage.asp.
I have tried using the following in the searchpage.asp, but have not been able to make the mainpage.asp display without the iframe.
reponse.redirect("mainpage.asp target=_top") ' Also tried _parent and _blank
I have also tried forcing mainpage.asp to redraw using a similar redirect command within mainpage.asp, but I still get the iframe and a don't get a fresh page.
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