Drop down menus and frames

Patrick Murray · Apr 19, 2004

I am confused here. I am trying to build a page with frames where a
click on the "submit" botton connected to a drop down menu will bring a
corresponding page in the frame below it. Here is the HTML code for the
drop-down frame:
<BODY>

<P><FONT face="Balloon" size="5">There are four main areas of support-
general,
Hardware, software and network. </FONT></P>
<FORM method="POST">
<P><SELECT size="1" name="D1">
<OPTION value="//general.html">General</OPTION>
<OPTION value="//hardware.html">Hardware</OPTION>
<OPTION value="//software.html">Software</OPTION>
<OPTION value="//network.html">Network</OPTION>
<OPTION selected>Choose one for links in that genre</OPTION>
</SELECT><INPUT type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"></P>
</FORM>

</BODY>

All files are on the same drive. What am I doing wrong?

TIA

David Dorward · Apr 19, 2004

Patrick said:
I am confused here. I am trying to build a page with frames

Oh dear
http://html-faq.com/htmlframes/?framesareevil
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/l_vajzovic/tom/web/frames.html
http://dorward.me.uk/www/frames/
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Problems_with_using_frames

where a click on the "submit" botton connected to a drop down menu will
bring a corresponding page in the frame below it.

Oh dear. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/navmenu.html

Here is the HTML code for the
drop-down frame:
<BODY>

<P><FONT face="Balloon" size="5">There are four main areas of support-
general,
Hardware, software and network. </FONT></P>

The said:
<FORM method="POST">

Where is the action attribute?

All files are on the same drive. What am I doing wrong?

Using frames, using a select element as a menu, and not including any code
whatsoever to handle the form submission.

Mitja · Apr 19, 2004

Patrick Murray said:
I am confused here. I am trying to build a page with frames where a
click on the "submit" botton connected to a drop down menu will bring a
corresponding page in the frame below it. Here is the HTML code for the
drop-down frame:
<BODY>

<P><FONT face="Balloon" size="5">There are four main areas of support-
general,
Hardware, software and network. </FONT></P>
<FORM method="POST">
<P><SELECT size="1" name="D1">
<OPTION value="//general.html">General</OPTION>
<OPTION value="//hardware.html">Hardware</OPTION>
<OPTION value="//software.html">Software</OPTION>
<OPTION value="//network.html">Network</OPTION>
<OPTION selected>Choose one for links in that genre</OPTION>
</SELECT><INPUT type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"></P>
</FORM>

</BODY>

All files are on the same drive. What am I doing wrong?

A lot; the concept itself is wrong. If you search for what you want on
Google, I'm sure you will find pre-made examples out there waiting for you.
But they all involve javascript, so using a simple list of links (maybe in
combination with some gracefully degradable DHTML, i.e. combination of HTML
and javascript) is by far more recommended.

TIA

Mitja

Beauregard T. Shagnasty · Apr 19, 2004

Quoth the raven named Patrick Murray:

I am confused here. I am trying to build a page with frames where a
click on the "submit" botton connected to a drop down menu will bring a
corresponding page in the frame below it. Here is the HTML code for the
drop-down frame:

I'll agree with the confusion. Why the frames? Bad Idea.

<BODY>

<P><FONT face="Balloon" size="5">There are four main areas of support-
general,
Hardware, software and network. </FONT></P>
<FORM method="POST">
<P><SELECT size="1" name="D1">
<OPTION value="//general.html">General</OPTION>
<OPTION value="//hardware.html">Hardware</OPTION>
<OPTION value="//software.html">Software</OPTION>
<OPTION value="//network.html">Network</OPTION>
<OPTION selected>Choose one for links in that genre</OPTION>
</SELECT><INPUT type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"></P>
</FORM>

</BODY>

All files are on the same drive. What am I doing wrong?

Additionally:

I've never seen the double-slash used before. If the other pages are
in the same directory, use no slashes.

I do not have a "Balloon" font. What is my browser suppose to show?

Hywel · Apr 19, 2004

I am confused here. I am trying to build a page with frames where a
click on the "submit" botton connected to a drop down menu will bring a
corresponding page in the frame below it. Here is the HTML code for the
drop-down frame:
<BODY>

<P><FONT face="Balloon" size="5">There are four main areas of support-
general,
Hardware, software and network. </FONT></P>
<FORM method="POST">
<P><SELECT size="1" name="D1">
<OPTION value="//general.html">General</OPTION>
<OPTION value="//hardware.html">Hardware</OPTION>
<OPTION value="//software.html">Software</OPTION>
<OPTION value="//network.html">Network</OPTION>
<OPTION selected>Choose one for links in that genre</OPTION>
</SELECT><INPUT type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"></P>
</FORM>

</BODY>

All files are on the same drive. What am I doing wrong?

For starters, you don't have a form handler. Without that, nothing's
going to happen. Your document may just submit to itself, or do
nothing.

Jeff Thies · Apr 20, 2004

Mitja said:
A lot; the concept itself is wrong. If you search for what you want on
Google, I'm sure you will find pre-made examples out there waiting for

you.

Really simple to do with a server script. Just redirect.

When you add the action to your form you'll want to set a target also for
that frame. And ditch the double slashes.

Jeff

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Drop down menus and frames

Patrick Murray

David Dorward

Mitja

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

Hywel

Jeff Thies

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