JS code inside frameset..

Frances Del Rio · May 28, 2004

can u put JS code inside a frameset? I have this, and it's not working,
even test alerts are ignored, in both browsers.. thank you..
Frances Del Rio

<frameset rows="90,*" border=0 frameborder="0" framespacing="0">
<frame name="header" src="header.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0">
<script language="Javascript">
if(navigator.appName == "Netscape"){
alert('ha')
document.write("<frameset cols='120,*' frameborder='0' framespacing='0'>")
}
else {
alert('ha')
document.write("<frameset cols='112,*' frameborder='0' framespacing='0'>")
}
</script>

<frame name="nav" src="menu.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0">
<frame name="main" src="check_puid.jsp" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0">
</frameset>

Ron · May 28, 2004

Frances said:
can u put JS code inside a frameset? I have this, and it's not
working, even test alerts are ignored, in both browsers.. thank you..
Frances Del Rio

<frameset rows="90,*" border=0 frameborder="0" framespacing="0">
<frame name="header" src="header.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0">
<script language="Javascript">
if(navigator.appName == "Netscape"){
alert('ha')
document.write("<frameset cols='120,*' frameborder='0'
framespacing='0'>")
}
else {
alert('ha')
document.write("<frameset cols='112,*' frameborder='0'
framespacing='0'>")
}
</script>

<frame name="nav" src="menu.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0">
<frame name="main" src="check_puid.jsp" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0">
</frameset>

script elements are not allowed in frameset elements ->
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/frames.html#h-16.2.1 . Put your
script in the head element instead.

Frances Del Rio · May 28, 2004

bummer........

script elements are not allowed in frameset elements ->
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/frames.html#h-16.2.1 . Put your
script in the head element instead.

well, that's not of much use to me.. I need one frame with for Netscape
(N 4.7, I'm talking, hence the problem..) and another width for same
frame in IE.. thank you yr response.. Frances

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn · May 28, 2004

Frances said:
bummer........
?

well, that's not of much use to me..

It is. Since you cannot use the "script" element within the "frameset"
element, but you *can* use it within the "head" element, you should do so.

See said:
[Top post]

Please take heed of <http://jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ2_3>.

PointedEars

Lee · May 28, 2004

Frances Del Rio said:

bummer........

well, that's not of much use to me.. I need one frame with for Netscape
(N 4.7, I'm talking, hence the problem..) and another width for same
frame in IE.. thank you yr response.. Frances

Tested in Netscape 7 and IE6:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
var cols=(navigator.appName == "Netscape")?120:112;
var html=[
'<frameset rows="90,*" border=0 frameborder="0" framespacing="0">',
'<frame name="header" src="header.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0">',
"<frameset cols='"+cols+",*' frameborder='0' framespacing='0'>",
'<frame name="nav" src="menu.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0">',
'<frame name="main" src="check_puid.jsp" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0">',
'</frameset></frameset>'
];
document.write(html.join(""));
</script>
</head>
</html>

Jim Ley · May 28, 2004

Nice one. But as for legibility of the resulting code, one should rather use

document.write(html.join("\n"));

I'd recommend "" - the fewer redundant nodes you have in the DOM the
better - why would you be reading generated code anyway?

Jim.

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn · May 28, 2004

Lee said:
var cols=(navigator.appName == "Netscape")?120:112;
var html=[
'<frameset rows="90,*" border=0 frameborder="0" framespacing="0">',
'<frame name="header" src="header.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0">',
"<frameset cols='"+cols+",*' frameborder='0' framespacing='0'>",
'<frame name="nav" src="menu.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0">',
'<frame name="main" src="check_puid.jsp" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0">',
'</frameset></frameset>'
];
document.write(html.join(""));

Nice one. But as for legibility of the resulting code, one should rather use

document.write(html.join("\n"));

And note that Array object initializers are not supported by all script
engines, so you may want to use

var html = new Array(
...
);

as well. However, browser sniffing does not work:

<http://pointedears.de/scripts/test/whatami>

PointedEars

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn · May 28, 2004

Jim said:
I'd recommend "" - the fewer redundant nodes you have in the DOM the
better -

Generally, agreed. But it is unlikely that someone
will access the top frameset element with the DOM.

why would you be reading generated code anyway?

To see that it worked.

PointedEars

Lee · May 28, 2004

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn said:

var cols=(navigator.appName == "Netscape")?120:112;
var html=[
'<frameset rows="90,*" border=0 frameborder="0" framespacing="0">',
'<frame name="header" src="header.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0">',
"<frameset cols='"+cols+",*' frameborder='0' framespacing='0'>",
'<frame name="nav" src="menu.html" scrolling="no" frameborder="0">',
'<frame name="main" src="check_puid.jsp" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0">',
'</frameset></frameset>'
];
document.write(html.join(""));

Click to expand...

Nice one. But as for legibility of the resulting code, one should rather use

document.write(html.join("\n"));

And note that Array object initializers are not supported by all script
engines, so you may want to use

var html = new Array(
...
);

as well. However, browser sniffing does not work:

1. During testing, I did join a newline, and alerted the result.
I changed it to "" and deleted the alert for release.

2. This is probably the first time I've used browser sniffing,
and did so only because the OP's requirement was to have a
different frame size in Netscape, specifically. Personally,
I would try to avoid such a requirement.

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JS code inside frameset..

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