retrieve the location of a page in a frame

Fre · Apr 17, 2004

Hi, i made script with an alert window that should show me the location of
the page in frame CONTENT (..../artikels.aspx).
But it don't work, i got an error: 'top.frames.1.frames' is empty or nog an
object.

When i try with: alert(top.location)
i get the location of my index page, that works, but when i use the frame
arrays nothing works

Here is my code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<TITLE>My Title</TITLE>
<script>
alert(top.frames[1].frames[1].frames[0].location);
</script>
</head>
<frameset cols="*,765,*" frameborder="no" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame name="left" noresize src="bgframe.htm">
<frameset rows="111,*" cols="*" frameborder="NO" border="0"
framespacing="0">
<frame name="head" src="header.htm" noresize scrolling="no">
<frameset cols="*,200" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame name="content" src="artikels.aspx" scrolling="yes">
<frame name="menu" src="menu.aspx" noresize scrolling="no">
</frameset>
</frameset>
<frame name="right" noresize src="bgframe.htm">
</frameset>
<noframes>
<body>
<p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p>
</body>
</noframes>
</html>

Thx in advance!
Frederik

Michael Winter · Apr 17, 2004

Hi, i made script with an alert window that should show me the location
of the page in frame CONTENT (..../artikels.aspx). But it don't work, i
got an error: 'top.frames.1.frames' is empty or nog an object.

When i try with: alert(top.location)
i get the location of my index page, that works, but when i use the
frame arrays nothing works

Here is my code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<TITLE>My Title</TITLE>
<script>

The type attribute is required. This should read

alert(top.frames[1].frames[1].frames[0].location);
</script>

At this point, the browser hasn't begun reading the frame and frameset
elements below, so the frames collection is empty. Either place the script
element below the closing frameset tag, or execute the script "onload".

[snipped frameset HTML]

You should really aim to avoid frames. CSS navigation menus are preferable.

Mike

Fre · Apr 17, 2004

Now the code is error free, but i don't get an alertbox?

Thx for reaction Mike!

Frederik

Michael Winter · Apr 17, 2004

Now the code is error free, but i don't get an alertbox?

This is probably what you're after. The frames collection contains all of
the frames in a window, not per frameset. That means that "left" is frame
0, "head" is frame 1, "content" is frame 2, "menu" is frame 3, and "right"
is frame 4.

I took the liberty to make your sample validate (see
<URL:http://validator.w3.org/>).

<!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>My Title</title>

<script type="text/javascript">
function displayFrameSrc( idx ) {
alert( frames[ idx ].location.href );
}
</script>
</head>

<frameset cols="*,765,*" onload="displayFrameSrc(2)">
<frame name="left" noresize src="bgframe.htm" frameborder="0">
<frameset rows="111,*" cols="*">
<frame name="head" src="header.htm" noresize scrolling="no"
frameborder="0">
<frameset cols="*,200">
<frame name="content" src="artikels.aspx" scrolling="yes"
frameborder="0">
<frame name="menu" src="menu.aspx" noresize scrolling="no"
frameborder="0">
</frameset>
</frameset>
<frame name="right" noresize src="bgframe.htm" frameborder="0">
<noframes>
<body>
<p>
This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.
</p>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

Fre · Apr 17, 2004

Thank you very much Mike to take time solving my problem!
Since you told me that the frames collection contains all of the frames in a
window i understand it perfect now.
I've read many forums before this post and there i've read some articles
with the use of this scriptline:
top.frames[1].frames[0].location (forum i visited for this script:
http://www.asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?tabindex=1&PostID=507978)

In the past i worked already with css for some of my school projects but for
this one i started working with frames (don't ask why

but this is the
last time i do it this way)

Greetz Frederik

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