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Target frame in parent with link from child?

I want to pop up a child dialog window from link on parent frameA. When user clicks link on child, close child and display linked URL in parent frameB.

I would like to do this with a modal child, but I can live with modeless if the function also closes the window.

It seems like this should be easy, but I can't find a solution.

Member_2_241474

ASKER

Child window opened with
window.showModalDialog("ChildWithLink.asp", "_blank")

JCsomay

ok... i think i recreated your situation and got it to do what you want. let me know if this is not the case:

in the asp page for frameA:
<span onClick="window.showModalDialog('ChildWithLink.asp', window.parent.frames['main']);">link</span>

in the asp page for the child modal:
<script language="javascript">
function closeWin() {
if (window.dialogArguments && dialogArguments.location) {
dialogArguments.location.href = "new.asp";
window.close();
}
}
</script>
<body>
<input type=button value=close onClick="closeWin();">
</body>

in this example main is the name of framesetB and new.asp is the new file to display in framesetB

basically, i am passing the target frame as a parameter to the modal so I can set its target from there.

hope this helps!!
Jason

JCsomay

please update your question (did this work?)

bruno

Jason your idea did not work for me....

so i recreated it...

page1.asp

<html>
<head>
<script>
function fnCallDialog()
{ showModelessDialog('ChildWithLink.asp',window,"status:false;dialogWidth:300px;dialogHeight:300px");
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
in the asp page for frameA:
<br />
<a href="javascript:onClick=fnCallDialog();">link</a>
</body>
</html>

ChildWithLink.asp

<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function closeWin(page)
{
if (window.dialogArguments && dialogArguments.location)
{
dialogArguments.location.href = page;
window.close();
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<br />
<br />
<a href="javascript:;" onClick="closeWin('new.asp');">this is a link to new.asp</a>
<br />
<br />
<a href="javascript:;" onClick="closeWin('page1.asp');">this is a link to page1.asp</a>
</body>
</html>

new.asp

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
new.asp
</body>
</html>

Try that and please let us know...

Good luck!

BRUNO

bruno

After further look, I neglected the frameset part. Also the same code that works fine on my machine causes errors on other machines.

This should be fixable by changing the second page...

ChildWithLink.asp

<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function closeWin(page)
{
if (window.dialogArguments && dialogArguments.location)
{
dialogArguments.location.href = page;
window.close();
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<br />
<br />
<a onClick="closeWin('new.asp');">this is a link to new.asp</a>
<br />
<br />
<a onClick="closeWin('page1.asp');">this is a link to page1.asp</a>
</body>
</html>

Sorry!

BRUNO

Member_2_241474

ASKER

Jason, sorry for the delay in acknowleddging your response. I went on vacation and did not even look at a crt or lcd!

Thanks to both Bruno and Jason. But I can't get either solution to work. I tried a number of different combinations. The last version (below) opens the url in the Link fram instead of Main.

Here's what I have:

=====================================
START.HTM - The frameset definition
------------------------------------
HTML><HEAD></HEAD>
<FRAMESET ROWS="64px,*" Border=0>
<NOFRAME>You must use a browser that can display frames to see this page.</NOFRAME>
<FRAME
FRAMEBORDER="NO"
MARGINHEIGHT="0"
MARGINWIDTH="0"
NAME="Link"
NORESIZE
SCROLLING="NO"
SRC="MenuLink.asp"
>
<FRAME
FRAMEBORDER="NO"
MARGINHEIGHT="0"
MARGINWIDTH="0"
NAME="Main"
NORESIZE
SCROLLING="NO"
SRC="Main.htm"
>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
=====================================
ChildWithLink.asp - the modal popup
-------------------------------------
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function closeWin(page)
{
if (window.dialogArguments && dialogArguments.location)
{
dialogArguments.location.href = page;
window.close();
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<br />
<br />
<a href="javascript:;" onClick="closeWin('new.asp');">this is a link to new.asp</a>
<br />
<br />
<a href="javascript:;" onClick="closeWin('page1.asp');">this is a link to page1.asp</a>
</body>
</html>

====================================
Page1.asp, new.asp, main.htm - just
to show something -
-----------------------------------
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
MAIN (or NEW or Page1)
</body>
</html>

JCsomay

jriggin,

I would be happy to email you the files... I have it working in my local directory....that way you can throw them in and modify as necessary

jason

bruno

ok let's try this again, using your frameset....

start.asp
-----------------
<HTML><HEAD></HEAD>
<FRAMESET ROWS="64px,*" Border=0>
<NOFRAME>You must use a browser that can display frames to see this page.</NOFRAME>
<FRAME
FRAMEBORDER="NO"
MARGINHEIGHT="0"
MARGINWIDTH="0"
NAME="Link"
NORESIZE
SCROLLING="NO"
SRC="MenuLink.asp"
>
<FRAME
FRAMEBORDER="NO"
MARGINHEIGHT="0"
MARGINWIDTH="0"
NAME="Main"
NORESIZE
SCROLLING="NO"
SRC="new.asp"
>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>

MenuLink.asp
------------------------
<html>
<head>
<script>
function fnCallDialog()
{ showModelessDialog('ChildWithLink.asp',window.parent.frames['Main'],"status:false;dialogWidth:300px;dialogHeight:300px");
}

</script>
</head>
<body>
in the asp page for frameA:
<br />
<a href="javascript:onClick=fnCallDialog();">link</a>
</body>
</html>

ChildWithLink.asp
----------------
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function closeWin(page)
{
if (window.dialogArguments && dialogArguments.location)
{
dialogArguments.location.href = page;
window.close();
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<br />
<br />
<a onClick="closeWin('new1.asp');">this is a link to new1.asp</a>
<br />
<br />
<a onClick="closeWin('MenuLink.asp');">this is a link to MenuLink.asp</a>
</body>
</html>

new.asp
-------------------
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
new.asp
</body>
</html>

new1.asp
--------------------
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
new1.asp
</body>
</html>

try those combination of files, things should be just as you want them.

Good Luck!

BRUNO

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ASKER

Thanks - this does the deed!

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Sorry - I thought I accepted this last time.

bruno

no problem....thanks for coming back and cleaning this up!

BRUNO