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Frames from multi-book index

Hi, I have a set of links in an html file, an index file actually, that appears in a right-hand frame. The index is a composite set of entries from three different books. The left-hand frame in the set is a list of topics for one of the books. When a user clicks on one of the index entries that pertains to one of the other two books, I want the left-hand to display the list of topics for that book. No big deal, right, just have <TARGET="_top" ...> link to another html file with a different frame set.

But in addition to changing the left-hand frame, I want the right hand frame to go to the *exact* file that the index entry is pointing to, not just the starting default file of the new html/frame file. In other words, the right-hand frame should display any of several hundred files, depending on which entry is selected, while the left-hand frame should display the correct one of three topic files, depending on which book the right-hand file belongs to.

Any way to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

Hawke

Try using the anchor tag.
<A HREF="myfile.html#here"> This will be linked to the "here" section of "myfile.html".</a>

<A NAME="here"> "Here" section of "myfile.html". </a>

I hope you understood that. The link will pull up the "here" section of "myfile.html". You'll have to edit your entries though and I don't think you want to do that.

sstark

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Sorry Hawke, but your response doesn't say anything about how to target a specific file within a new frame set. Perhaps my question isn't clear. I want both the left and right-hand frames to change, the left one to one of three files and the right to one of possibly thousands of files.

thanks,
Scott

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sstark

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Thanks for the great answer!