Frames problem

SusieG · #1 (**permalink**) 06-23-2004, 01:54 PM

I'm having trouble with adding a page to a website with frames.

How do I link to a page where it displays all the frames? I want to link to a page with left frame, right frame and bottom frame in place. I have created the right frame as an html page but when I insert the link into index.htm as a href=htmlpage it doesn't show the frames just htmlpage on its own.

Can someone help?

voodooboy · #2 (**permalink**) 06-23-2004, 03:21 PM

The theory behind a framed page is so that one or more elements of the browser window can stay the same while soemthing else changes.

Are you trying to replace the content of one frame within the browser or change everything in every frame within the browser?

SusieG · #3 (**permalink**) 06-23-2004, 03:32 PM

I am trying to link to this new page from the homepage. The way the site is setup is as follows:

The homepage has a top menu bar <MAP>, it's not a frame but all the menu items link to a framed page with left, right and bottom.

The rest of the site has a left menu bar ie the left frame. The links within this bar have target=rightframe so that's fine.

I thought I would be able to copy a link on the homepage but on seeing the code I'm confused.

Does this give you more of an idea?

Thanks for your help.

HardCoded · #4 (**permalink**) 06-24-2004, 12:52 AM

You can't do what you're asking with plain HTML. You'll need serverside with some code telling it to load the frameset with a specific page loaded in the right frame.

Alternatively, you could create a bunch of different frameset pages for each page in the right frame you want...but what an ass-pain that would be.

smakyyy · #5 (**permalink**) 06-24-2004, 02:44 AM

Use front page- u can work with frames.
I personally advice you againse using frames - as even google does not crawl in frames properly and u will not be up in ranking. :-)

SusieG · #6 (**permalink**) 06-24-2004, 04:24 AM

The situation is: I'm on a page with no frames, I want to link to a page that shows 3 frames. Surely this is possible.

I have yet to create the page that will appear in the right frame, the left frame and bottom (menus) already exist. Is there any code that I could put in the new page that will pick up the frames?

Thanks for your help.

Susie

voodooboy · #7 (**permalink**) 06-24-2004, 08:20 AM

Here you go:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<frameset rows="*,80" cols="*" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frameset cols="80,*" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame src="leftpagehere.html" name="leftFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize>
<frame src="rightpagehere.html" name="mainFrame">
</frameset>
<frame src="bottompagehere.html" name="bottomFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize >
</frameset>
<noframes><body>
</body></noframes>
</html>

SusieG · #8 (**permalink**) 06-24-2004, 11:30 AM

That looks good thank you.

I want the following 3 pages to appear as frames:
menu.htm left
info.htm right
bottom.htm bottom

Do I create a new page and paste the above code into it? If so what do I call this page? Should it be one of the above?

I'm not quite sure where to paste the code.

SusieG · #9 (**permalink**) 06-24-2004, 12:22 PM

It's OK I got it. Thanks for all your help.

Last thing. When I click the menu now in the left frame it retains the page in the address bar, however the original pages that were there don't.

Have I done something wrong?
Any ideas?

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