I am not a JavaScript expert, but I had a similar problem. I THINK that
you need to reference your frames like this:
window.parent.frames.rightFrame.document.open();
Give it a try, hope that helps...
Josh
> hi all,
>
> i know this is not exactly the place to ask this, but i don't know
> where else to ask. i'm doing a multiframe project and i'm trying to
> get one of the pages to change the content of another frame when it
> loads.
>
> in the main.htm i have:
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>A Global Village?</title>
> ...
> <script src="../../media/scripts/rightside.js" type="text/javascript">
> <script type="text/javascript">
> <!--
> rightopen();
> rightwrite('Hello', 'www.yahoo.com', 'Yahoo is really good.');
> rightclose();
> //-->
> </script>
> </script>
>
> </head>
> <body>
> ...
> </body>
> </html>
>
> the included rightside.js file has the three functions:
>
> function rightopen () {
> parent.rightFrame.document.open();
> parent.rightFrame.document.write("<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
> \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD
> XHTML 1.0 Strict\/\/EN\""\n);
> parent.rightFrame.document.write("
> \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-strict.dtd\">"\n);
> parent.rightFrame.document.write("<html>"\n);
> parent.rightFrame.document.write("<head>"\n);
> parent.rightFrame.document.write("<title><\/title>"\n);
> parent.rightFrame.document.write("<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"
> content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\" \/>"\n);
> parent.rightFrame.document.write("<link rel=\"stylesheet\"
> href=\"media\/scripts\/sidelayout.css\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>"\n);
> parent.rightFrame.document.write("<link rel=\"stylesheet\"
> href=\"media\/scripts\/sidetext.css\" type=\"text\/css\" \/>"\n);
> parent.rightFrame.document.write("<script
> src=\"media\/scripts\/scripts.js\"
> type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>"\n);
> parent.rightFrame.document.write("<\/head>"\n);
> parent.rightFrame.document.write("<body>"\n);
> }
>
> function rightwrite (name, url, desc) {
> parent.rightFrame.document.write("<p class=\"rightlink\"><a href=\"" +
> url
> + "\" target=\"_blank\">" + name + "<\/a><br \/>");
> parent.rightFrame.document.write(desc + "<\/p>");
> }
>
> function rightclose () {
> parent.rightFrame.document.write("<\/body>"\n);
> parent.rightFrame.document.write("<\/html>"\n);
> parent.rightFrame.document.close();
> }
>
> when i start the file i get a javascript error saying "expecting
> object"
>
> i'm not sure what i'm doing wrong. any help is appreciated.
>
> thanks
>
>
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