[DHTML] Menu on top of frameset

**molendijk** · 10-24-2007, 03:10 PM

Site updated oct. 24th, oct. 25th.
Bookmark button displays name of main frame's page now (if page is not external).
Buttons for bookmarking / printing / correcting URL hide when viewer sees an external page in the main frame.

Arie M.

**molendijk** · 10-26-2007, 01:08 PM

Site updated oct. 26th.
The bookmark button and the bookmark alert are OK now (I had problems with that in preceding versions of the site).

Arie M.

**molendijk** · 10-27-2007, 11:56 PM

Site updated oct. 28th, 29th.
All functions and other 'activities' are in index.html now, except for the script that must be put in all frameset's pages in order for the enframed pages to show within their frameset. Also, some onload- and onunload instructions must remain part of the main frame's pages ('page1.htm' and 'page2.html').
The fact that almost everything can be controlled in 'index.html' makes it very easy to maintain the site.

Arie M.

**molendijk** · 10-30-2007, 11:23 PM

Site updated oct. 31th., nov.2nd.
More info and how-to's added.

Arie M.

**molendijk** · 11-29-2007, 11:47 PM

The technique used for this site has also been applied here.
Apparently, the issue on how to have the menu(s) on top of the frameset depends on the nature of the menu: listmenu or simple anchor menu (Anylink) vs purely javascript (Twinhelix Cascading Menu). In the latter case, loading a file in the main frame requires 'parent.ifr.main' as the goal of the link ('ifr' being the name of the fulscreen iframe that loads the frameset).

Arie M.

**gknight** · 12-06-2007, 03:46 PM

Arie,
I am unable to access the link that you have posted above to see the code that you are using to cross frames with your menus. I really need to figure out how to do this with the tool tip that I am using at http://www.4x4riders.us/index-frames.html .

I don't really know anything about javescript at this time and I am trying to get this site finished so that I can take the time to start reasing and learning Javascript.

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks,
gknight

**molendijk** · 12-06-2007, 04:23 PM

Hello gknight,
The server is down at the moment. Here's another address for the site:
http://molendijk.110mb.com/dynamic/

**molendijk** · 12-06-2007, 05:58 PM

Gknight,
Make something like this and you'll see what I mean:

Code:

<html>

<body style="overflow:hidden;margin:0;padding:0">

<iframe src="index-frames.html" style="position:absolulte;left:0;top:0;width:100%;height:100%;width:100%" frameborder="0">
</iframe>
<div style="position:absolute; left:20px; top:100px; width:300px; height:75px; background:#dedede;border:2px dashed red">This could be your tooltip</div>

</body>

</html>

Arie Molendijk.

**jgl** · 03-31-2011, 03:42 PM

Hey Arie - Thanks! I never needed to do this before and banged my head trying to find a solution. I have to pull an external page into a frameset but need some complex navigation that I could control. This is brilliant.

Do you think that this is still the best way when forced to use a frameset?

Thanks!

**molendijk** · 03-31-2011, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by jgl

Do you think that this is still the best way when forced to use a frameset?

It would be better not to use framesets at all. But there are cases in which it seems hard to do without them. In those cases, I think that this is the best way indeed to do it: a dynamic frameset included in a iframe.
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Arie.

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