How to select which frames open in a new window

i have a html frameset i'm using to act like a place to hold game player choices, primarily because they stick to the player's window statically thru out the game and as a result, act similar to saving player choices to a database. currently, there's a side frame, a footer frame and a main window frame. however, i need to occasionally break out of the footer frame, while retaining the already selected data in the side frame. how do you break out of 1 frame in your frameset without losing the stickiness in the other frames?

or even better is there a way to modify the size of the frames between page clicks? for example

Code:

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<frameset cols="12%,*"  frameborder="0" border="0" framespacing="0" >
        <frame name="menu" src=".html" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" >
        <frame name="content" src=".html" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" >

       
</frameset>

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upon click, changed to

Code:

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<frameset cols="22%,*"  frameborder="0" border="0" framespacing="0" >
        <frame name="menu" src=".html" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" >
        <frame name="content" src=".html" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" >

       
</frameset>

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without effecting the stickiness of the data in the frames?

See:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...llapsemain.htm

thanks. :D so a link click on another page that uses that script, can resize (not close) a targeted frame on the page that's being linked, when you click the link?

The link can change the size (to 0 if desired) of a frame in the parent (frameset page). If you also want that link to do other things at the same time, it can, ex:

Code:

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<a href="some.htm" onclick="parent.resizeFrame('*,0'); return true;">Some page</a>

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Of course you can also use it in the 'normal' way as shown on the demo page.

it works great except it didn't want to work in google chrome. when clicked, nothing happened. so i got a new bit of javascript to add to it, that tells it to open in the named frame window. here's the whole thing

Code:

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<a href="mypage.html" onclick="parent.resizeFrame('*,2');

parent.content.location='mypage.html'">

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it also doesn't work in google chrome but it does work in ff and ie. anyway to resolve that?

Google Chrome sometimes has issues with frames unless the pages are all live. Have you tried it live, or are you still just experimenting locally?

oh, i didn't think to try that. you are right! yep it works live. thanks :D