Reloading a frame set

CaN Opener · 03-18-2003, 07:11 PM

im creating a website for my friend and i had a question about frame sets.

i want the first page to go to a grafic that has been maped out. then from the various links i want the new page the load but i want a navbar at the bottom. how do i load this frame set when my main frame is a varable?
i would be happy for any post

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sde · 03-18-2003, 10:11 PM

hey can you post some code of your main frameset so your question makes a little more sense? maybe explain it a little more too?

joe_bruin · 03-18-2003, 10:59 PM

you can give frames names, and have your links be targeted towards a particular frame.

ex:
<a href="/sidebar.html" target="leftframe">refresh the left frame</a>

the main page frame (the one that contains all other frames) is named "_top" by default.

<a href="/main.html" target="_top">replace all frames on this page by main.html</a>

Admin · 03-19-2003, 06:55 AM

dont use frames, they are evil.

sde · 03-19-2003, 07:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Admin
dont use frames, they are evil.

hehe, i agree with matt 100% here

sno2dude · 04-03-2003, 06:29 AM

hey now, dont hate on frames...... i <3 frames..... My page You just gotta know how to work them!

sno2dude · 04-03-2003, 06:30 AM

oh, and yes, i know my page is devoid of decent content.... and i need to change the text color.... but still it has a certain something to it i think...... shuddup..... so what if im not creative?!

Admin · 04-03-2003, 07:12 AM

sorry dude, frames are bad.

search engines cant bookmark your pages properly, you can print specific pages easily, the reload button doesnt work properly, etc etc etc.....

sno2dude · 04-03-2003, 07:17 AM

i dont care about search pages, if idid i could put Meta tags in my frame page, ive never had a problem with the reload button and printing webpages is bad in general, thats why copy and paste was created.

Admin · 04-03-2003, 08:41 AM

hah.

search engines will index the content pages leaving your navigation left out. they might also index your navigation pages leaving your content left out.

printing webpages is bad? says who?

sorry dude, your not gonna win this one.

redhead · 04-04-2003, 12:50 AM

Ok, if this is still an object.. then this is what I would do:

Code:

<html>
<head>
 <title>
  Your title 
 </title>

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--- hide from nasty NS 2.0

var urlArray = new Array("main.html", "firstpage.html",
secondpage.html", "thirdpage.html");

/*
 * this is a simple function to decide main contence,
 * given a url like: url/&something it will give the main contence
 * something.html
 * unless its a special something like lovene etc..
 */

function decideMain(url){
  var INDEX = url.indexOf("?");
// if a regular url no need to play the BIG boss here..
  if(INDEX == -1)
    return "main.html";
  var searchThing = url.substring(INDEX+1);
  for(var i = 0; i < urlArray.length; i++)
    if(urlArray[i].indexOf(searchThing) > -1)
      return urlArray[i];

// if everything fails.. we can return the something.html page..
  return (searchThing + ".html");
}

var MAIN = decideMain(document.location.href);

document.write(
"<FRAMESET ROWS=\"*, 135\" noresize border=\"0\">\n" +
"  <FRAME NAME=\"main\" SRC=\"" + MAIN +"\" noresize SCROLLING=\"auto\" border=\
"0\">\n" +
"  <FRAME NAME=\"menu\" noresize SRC=\"menu.html\" SCROLLING=\"no\" border=\"0\"
>\n" +
"</FRAMESET>\n"
);
// End of hiding..  -->
</script>
<!--- For those who cant even allow javascript.. -->
<noscript>
<FRAMESET ROWS="*, 135" noresize border="0">
  <FRAME NAME="menu" noresize SRC="menu.html" SCROLLING="no" border="0">
  <FRAME NAME="main" SRC="main.html" noresize SCROLLING="auto" border="0">
</FRAMESET>
</noscript>
<!--- If your using IE 2.0 or older, it's just too bad.. -->

</head>
<body BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" ALINK="#0099FF"  LINK="#0099FF" VLINK="#0099FF" TEXT="#0
00000" TOPMARGIN="16" LEFTMARGIN="16" MARGINWIDTH="16" MARGINHEIGHT="16">
<center>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="90%">
 <tr>
  <td>
   Too bad, your browser dosn't support frames
  </td>
 </tr>
</table>
</center>
</html>

It will do what the description of the function is telling..
Just make your image map to parse the desired thing, like <a href='my_frame.html?what_to_se'> and it will load your fram-page with the main contence beeing 'what_to_see.html', if the '?wat_to_se' should match anything mentioned in the urlArray, it will load the mainsource as beeing the match. If you parse it with the usual <a href='my_frame.html'> it will just load main.html as the main source..

Hope this is what you were looking for, and I'm sorry I didnt answer it sooner, eventho I was aware of this..

But as the others claim, frames are bad..... Use php, and just have a show_menu() function you just call from what ever page you need it shown in..

Then again, if you havn't got the support for php you're forced to use frames.. (but frames are bad...)

Admin · 04-04-2003, 06:47 AM

you can also use SSI's to include navigation

sno2dude · 04-07-2003, 09:24 AM

printing webpages is bad cuz it screws up all the formatting this is why its all about the copy paste and then reformatting it so that it actually prints right...... and if you have a problem with that you can kiss my @$$ i doubt anyone is going to want to print anything off of my totally non-informitave webpage and i doubt anyone will need to search Google for it.