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Target a Spry Tab from an iframe in the tabs

Hi,
I have a website that has Dreamwevers Spry Tabs that are dynamically loaded... within each tab, is an iframe. in the iframe I have a button that I need to change the Spry Tabs of the parent so to speak... If I do not use an iframe, I use the following code for the button for example....

<a href="#" onclick="TabbedPanels1.showPanel(11)" ><img src="images/box/enquire.png" width="80" height="24" border="0" /></a>

The problem is that this doesn't work when it is in an iframe in the tab...

Any help would ne much appreciated

Thanks

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shirazti

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flashjordan

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Thanks for the reply
Yep, that sort of works, the only thing it doesn't do is load the content of the tab that it is going to

Any ideas

flashjordan

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The tab loads iframes on demand with for exampel:
<li class="TabbedPanelsTab" tabindex="11" onClick="getPage('FrameSitel', 'contactus.php')">Contact</li>

and

<iframe name="FrameSitel" id="FrameSitel" frameborder="0" style="width:780px; height:450px;" scrolling="no"></iframe>

if that helps?

flashjordan

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With a little trial and a lot of error, came up with the following that works with the frames tab above

<a href="#" onclick="parent.TabbedPanels1.showPanel(12); parent.getPage('FrameSitel', 'contactus.php');">

shirazti

I'm not completely clear enough with your issue. I guess you are loading the iframe content through a javascript function, what you can do is you can create a separate javascript function on the iframe page to control both iframe content loading and tab switching.

<a href="#" onclick="parent.getPage('FrameSitel', 'contactus.php');parent.TabbedPanels1.showPanel(1)" >Frame Button</a>

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flashjordan

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Great thanks, needed a little modification to load the page, but what you gave me was great... Thanks

shirazti

Thanks for the grading.......... I'm glad that you solved it yourself :-). Nice Job!