CSS menu that changes two frames.

[Freeman]

I need a menu that changes two frames at once. The left frame will be navigation for the frame on the right. I looked in dynamic for a couple of hours but didn't find one that would work. Any help would be appreciated, JF

[jscheuer1]

You're not giving us much to go on here. Sounds like you want a link that will load one page into one frame and another page into another frame. Menus are basically just organized and styled bunches of links so, the menu wouldn't matter so much as would the link though, to do this, different menus would probably need to be adapted in different ways. One way to target two different frames with one link is like so:


<a href="page1.htm" target="frameone" onclick="top.frames.frametwo.href='page2.htm';return true;">Link text</a>

Where frameone and frametwo are the names of the frames on the top page.

Then again, I may have completely missed your point.

[Freeman]

onclick="top.frames.frametwo.href='page2.htm';return true;">Link text</a>

with the "top.frames.frametwo.href='page2.htm';return true;" is top.frames.frametwo.href supposed to go in just as it is and change the page that it is referencing?

[jscheuer1]

frametwo is the name of the frame, if your frame has a different name, use it instead. The page can be whatever you like.

[Freeman]

does this script work if it is in <li> tags?

[Freeman]

<li><a href="about.htm" title="About School" target="main" onclick="top.frames.side.href='aboutside2.htm';return true;"><span>About School </span></a></li>

This is what I have. When you click on the link of the top frame it changes the main frame but not the side navigation frame. Is it a problem with this or a problem with the index?

<!-- Top navigation-->
<frameset rows="100, *">
<frame src="frame.htm" scrolling="no" noresize>
<!-- Side Navigation-->
<frameset cols="150, *">
<frame src="aboutside.htm" name="side" scrolling="no">
<!-- Main Page-->
<frameset cols="*, 0">
<frame src="home.htm" name="main">

This is the index. Something I am doing wrong? Thanks for any help, JF

[jscheuer1]

Sorry, it needs to be location.href:


onclick="top.frames.side.location.href='aboutside2.htm';return true;"

[Freeman]

I love you, Truly. Now I can build the navigation for my site. Thanks alot jscheuer1