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referencing a frame element within a frameset within an iframe

I have a web app I am updating to scroll when the window is smaller than 1024x768. I currently have the index.html page referencing a login.jsp page which in turn, currently loads the index.jsp page which contains a frame set consising of 2 rows. The first has 3 frames, a hidden persistance frame which references all the persistent variables contained in persistence.jsp, a hidden communications frame, and the headline. The second row references the content.jsp page which contains a frameset with 2 columns (leftHandMenu and Viewer).

I am adding the iframe layer in such a way as to encapsulate the index.jsp page so that when the windo is resized or too small, it will be scrollable. The new DOM looks like index.html-->login.jsp-->iframe.jsp-->index.jsp. The problem is that since I'm adding a new top layer, the references to the persistence.jsp values are no longer valid. How would I go about fixing those references with the new layer added, and is there a better way for me to accomplish my goal? Thanks.

siliconeagle

you will probably have to just do a search/replace on whatever the perfix was to your persistence.jsp document. while doing so you could make a variable so if you have to do the same thing again or just generally re-organize your frames in the future than you will only have to cahnge one line.

e.g
var presistenceDoc=top.frames['name'].frames['presistence'];
access js variables in your presistence document with:-
presistenceDoc.jsVariable;
and functions
presistenceDoc.jsFunction();
access HTML elements in your presistence document with:-
presistenceDoc.getElementById('htmlElementId');

tigress298

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in iframe.jsp:

<IFRAME SRC="index.jsp" WIDTH=1024 HEIGHT=768 frameborder=1>
If you can see this, your browser doesn't
understand IFRAME. However, we'll still
<A HREF="index.jsp">link</A>
you to the file.
</IFRAME>

how would I reference the index.jsp's frames from this iFrame?
top.frames["index"].frames["persistence"]? or some other way? Do I need to give it an
ID?
I guess I just don't know if IFrames work the same way as frameset for referencing purposes.

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