help, javascript problem

[Chris33]

I trying to use simple javascript to launch a page into an inline frame. the script I have so far runs thus:

<script>
function loadhometitle() {
frames['titleframe'].location.href='http://www.hotmail.com'; return false;

}
</script>


the event handler being <a onclick="loadhometitle()" ...................



the problem is that hotmail doesn't load into the iframe but the whole page; or atleast it appears to begin to load into the iframe then simply takes up the whole page.


I have also tried : parent.frames[titleframe].location = 'http://www.hotmail.com'


any solutions have to be in javascript

please help!

thanks

Chris

[jscheuer1]

You don't need a script for that. If the link is on the parent page:

<a href="www.hotmail.com" target="titleframe">Hot Mail</a>

or, if the link is already in the iframe:

<a href="www.hotmail.com">Hot Mail</a>

BUT, if hotmail.com has code on their page(s) to break out of frames, there is no method that will prevent that from happening other than turning off javascrpt on your browser.

[Chris33]

Thanks for the reply but I can't use the straight forward <a href= ></a> tags. What i've done on my site is assemble a series of buttons with a special dissolving rollover effect on them, in order to do this I had to specify onmouseover and onmouseout codes, plus these buttons are all hyperlinked. I have tried repeatedly to slip some code into the existing <a> tags but to no avail, in fact the rollover effect even stopped working, thus I need to use javascript and an event handler.


suggestions please

[Chris33]

no wait...you genius....you were right, the problem is simply because stinking hotmail.com wouldn't stay within the iframe......never use hotmail as a test page :-)

thanks alot

chris