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NDBounce · Aug 1, 2003, 04:25 PM

I am using a very tweaked version of ASP calendar. But my question is regarding frames in general:

I have three frames, a banner, a left navigation bar and a right info area.

In the left navigation bar I have a calendar. The top of it looks something like this

< August >

Where the <>'s are buttons to go forward/backward one month

here's the trick, I can, using the [a href] tag get either the left or right frame to change. What I want to know is whether or not I can, using frames, have it so that the left frame refreshed to the next month and the right frame displays the information for that month.

Right now it works where (depending how I set up the a tag) I can either get it so the left fram updates properly or I can set it up so that the right frame updates properly, but I don't know how to make it update both frams by pressing one button.

If anyone out there can help me, give me a javascript or the proper HTML code to do this I would be most grateful.

Thank you,

O
B unce!

clam2000 · Aug 1, 2003, 07:09 PM

you need to use javascript for this:

Code:
function changeFrames(frameOneName,frameOneHref,frameTwoName,frameTwoHref) {
top.frames[frameOneName].location.href=frameOneHref;
top.frames[frameTwoName].location.href=frameTwoHref;
}

then your link looks like:

[a href="javascript:changeFrames('left','http://nextmonth.com','right','http://nextmonth.com/info')"]click[/a]

remember, use angly brackets

there may be some errors, I didn't test this code

--will

mzllr · Aug 1, 2003, 07:10 PM

pheewwww, that was a fun little problem... i only used 2 frames, but you can easily change this to work with 3.

so here's the javascript that i came up with (it works in safari and ie for mac, didn't check netscape)

main page - snippet
[php]
<frameset rows="100, *">
<frame name="frame_1" src="page1.asp">
<frame name="frame_2" src="page2.asp">
</frameset>
[/php]
what's important here is that you give names to the frames (ie - name="frame_1"). you can name them whatever you want - just as long as you change it in the second page....

page1.asp
[php]
<html>

<head>

<script>

function frameSwitch(fr1, fr2) {
var frame1 = fr1;
var frame2 = fr2;

parent.frame_1.document.location.href = frame1;

parent.frame_2.document.location.href = frame2;

}

</script>

</head>

<body>

<a href="javascript:frameSwitch('page3.asp','page4.as p')">asdf</a>

</body>

</html>
[/php]
so, just change page3.asp and page4.asp to whatever you want those frame pages to change to and you should be good to go...

in this example:
page1.asp changes to page3.asp
page2.asp changes to page4.asp

mzllr · Aug 1, 2003, 07:11 PM

whoops, will beat me to it....

NDBounce · Aug 1, 2003, 07:20 PM

Thanks so much to the both of you. I will give this a try!

Peace,

O
B unce!

NDBounce · Aug 1, 2003, 08:11 PM

hmmm....I can't seem to get this to work for me. I added an alert tag to the script that lets me know if teh script is running, and that isn't working either...

I am playing with the code as I type this, but if someone wants to go to cadca.org/calendar to see if they can look at the source and see if they know why my code isn't working feel free to do so.

FYI I am trying to get the left and right arrows next to the month name to be the code that causes the JavaScript to execute. I have changed the right arrow to the text test to see if that would help. I also changed the pages that are linked to see if I passed it different pages if that would help, but that didn't.

Peace,

O
B unce!

mzllr · Aug 1, 2003, 08:15 PM

[php]<a href="java script:frameSwitch('events.asp', 'admin.asp')">test</a>[/php]

lose the spaces between java and script and events.asp and admin.asp... should be

[php]<a href="javascript:frameSwitch('events.asp','admin.a sp')">test</a>[/php]

EDIT: weird, i didn't notice that it did that before... it should be [a href="javascript... ]

NDBounce · Aug 1, 2003, 08:18 PM

Originally posted by NDBounce:
hmmm....I can't seem to get this to work for me. I added an alert tag to the script that lets me know if teh script is running, and that isn't working either...

I found my error...in the href tag JavaScript is one word not two...

that seemed to fix it for me..

thanks all for the help

mzllr · 08:32 PM

just checked your site out in ie4mac, safari, and netscape... all seem to be working fine...

cool stuff, i'm glad it worked out for ya....