Targeting into Iframe

[Robert]

Well, I've searched everything I could find on your site about Iframes. The menu works fine, untill I try to set it up to target a page into an iframe, which doesn't work at all. At this point I've looked until my eyes are crossing, so I was hoping one of you folks could see what I'm missing.

Here is what I've used....

Just before body tag:

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</script></head>
<script>function openIFrame(mainframe, URL){
ifId=gmobj(mainframe)
ifId.location.href=URL // Opera Bug Fix. ifId.src=URL
} </script>

Placed in the page:

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<iframe id="mainframe" src="home.html" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" style="overflow:visible; width:580px; display:none"></iframe
>

Link in js file:

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aI("text= About This Ministry;url=javascript:openIFrame('mainframe','aboutministry.html');");

Without the openiframe part of the link it works fine, but with it you get "error on page" down in the status bar and nothing happens.
If anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate it. Idon't have these pages uploaded yet, but if you need to see the whole thing in action I can upload the main and one of the linked pages.

[Migru]

Hi

try as follows:

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<iframe src="home.html" id="_main" name="_main" height="400" width="580" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto"></iframe>

and in your js file

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aI("text= About This Ministry;url=aboutministry.html;target=_main;"); 

but if you need to see the whole thing in action I can upload the main and one of the linked pages.

This of course is always better (having a url)

Michael

[Ruth]

Hi,

I've also noted that on the Opening Windows and Frames samples, the code for opening the iframe is after the body tag, and is as follows:

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<script>
function openIFrame(iFrameId,winURL)
{
	ifId=gmobj(iFrameId)
	ifId.src=winURL
}
</script>

And, you do need to have both an id= and name= as Michael noted, some browsers need id, others need name= . I'm not sure which is which.

Ruth

[Migru]

Some links on this subject

a) page with adressing of iframes

http://milonic.com/forum/viewtopic. ... ght=#34525

b) Adressing iframes
reply by kevin on similar question ("id" and/or "name")

viewtopic. ... ght=#34126 or
http://milonic.com/forum/viewtopic. ... ght=#34057

HTML standard is to use both "id" and "name".

Michael

[Robert]

Ok, thanks for the info. I'll go tinker on it some more.