Why does this not work in IE, but in Mozilla (and compatible)

Vincent van Beveren · Jan 7, 2005

I have the following (seemingly) useless piece of JavaScript

<html>
<head>

<script type="text/javascript">
function frameMe() {
s = "document.open();";
s += "document.writeln('<html><frameset rows=\"*,33%\">');\n";
s += "document.writeln('<frame src=\"' + document.location +
'\">');\n";
s += "document.writeln('<frame src=\"about:blank\">');\n";
s += "document.writeln('</frameset></html>');\n";
eval(s);
}
</script>

</head>

<body>
<input type="button" onClick="frameMe();" value="Frame me! (again?)">
</body>
</html>

Now, in Firefox this works fine, but in IE, it doesn't. Does anyone
know why, and if it can be helped?

Thanks,
Vincent

Martin Honnen · Jan 7, 2005

Vincent van Beveren wrote:

<html>
<head>

<script type="text/javascript">
function frameMe() {
s = "document.open();";
s += "document.writeln('<html><frameset rows=\"*,33%\">');\n";
s += "document.writeln('<frame src=\"' + document.location +
'\">');\n";
s += "document.writeln('<frame src=\"about:blank\">');\n";
s += "document.writeln('</frameset></html>');\n";

Why no
document.close();
call?

eval(s);

Why the eval, couldn't you simply have the function have
document.open();
document.write(...);
document.close();
calls?

</script>

</head>

<body>
<input type="button" onClick="frameMe();" value="Frame me! (again?)">
</body>
</html>

Now, in Firefox this works fine, but in IE, it doesn't.

Well what happens with IE, do you get a script error, or what exactly
doesn't work?

eric · Jan 7, 2005

Vincent said:
I have the following (seemingly) useless piece of JavaScript

<html>
<head>

<script type="text/javascript">
function frameMe() {
s = "document.open();";
s += "document.writeln('<html><frameset rows=\"*,33%\">');\n";
s += "document.writeln('<frame src=\"' + document.location +
'\">');\n";
s += "document.writeln('<frame src=\"about:blank\">');\n";
s += "document.writeln('</frameset></html>');\n";
eval(s);
}
</script>

</head>

<body>
<input type="button" onClick="frameMe();" value="Frame me! (again?)">
</body>
</html>

Now, in Firefox this works fine, but in IE, it doesn't. Does anyone
know why, and if it can be helped?

Thanks,
Vincent

Vincent,
Hmm...thats kinda neat....never thought of dynamically writing frames,
but it does seem to work. I worked out a way that works for firefox
and IE (see below). I tend to not like using frames since there are
usually other ways to do it without...but if you have some strange need
it could come in handy(I myself might have such a need). Eric

<html>
<head>

<script type="text/javascript">

function frameMe() {
document.write('<html><frameset rows=\"*,33%\"><frame name=\"main\"
src=\"net.htm\"><frame src=\"testme

..htm\"></frameset></html>');
window.frames.main.location="net.htm"
}
</script>

</head>

<body>
<input type="button" onClick="frameMe();" value="Frame me! (again?)">
</body>
</html>

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Why does this not work in IE, but in Mozilla (and compatible)

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