JavaScript Frame FAQ

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FAQ 3 How do you change the URL of a frame by typing in the URL in a text box of a different frame?
FAQ 4 Is there a script out there that will load a certain frame first?
FAQ 11 How can I click on a thumbnail in one frame and load the image in another?
FAQ 25 How can you find information about the contents of another frame?
FAQ 41 Can I write directly to a frame, after defining the frameset?
FAQ 53 How do I call a function in another frame?
FAQ 54 How can I tell whether the document is loaded within frames?
FAQ 57 How do I set one frame to have the focus?
FAQ 59 How do I get borderless frames?
FAQ 65 Whats the difference between _top and _parent?
FAQ 74 Is it possible to preload a frame without showing it?
FAQ 76 How do I access a variable within one nested frameset from another?
FAQ 88 How can I change the location of two frames using a simple '<a href="">'?
FAQ 94 Why do I get an error message when trying to find the location of the document in the parent or sibling frame from another frame?
FAQ 103 Can I place the document in one of the frames as the main document when removing frames, if the document is from another server?
FAQ 110 I have three frames on my page, how can I control how far down the horizontal window split goes?
FAQ 114 Is it possible to resize a frame by script using resizeTo() or resizeBy() functions or innerHeight properperties?
FAQ 117 Can I "execute" function test() from frame2 by pressing button (onClick) in frame1?
FAQ 121 Is it possible to address the frame structure from outside of itself, from an opened child window?
FAQ 126 How would I be able to force all incoming pages to appear within the specified frame (many pages have _top or _parent target parameters)?
FAQ 129 How can preload the contents of the next document to be shown in the current frame?
FAQ 153 How do I load a document in another frame when a button is clicked?
FAQ 163 How can I make a frame pop in on a button click and pop out on a different button click?
FAQ 173 When changing the contents of two frames at once, how can I ensure that the back button changes both frames at once?
FAQ 180 How can I position another frame on an anchor?
FAQ 184 Is there a way to set the base target for a frame to parent.opener?
FAQ 206 A site that uses frames displays my site in a frame, is there a way to keep my site 'on top'?
FAQ 220 I have a frameset with four frames, when I press button in frame1, how do I get two frames (frame2 and frame3) loaded at a same time with different pages?
FAQ 226 How can I avoid 'persistent frame caching' when I use dynamic pages in my frames?
FAQ 288 How can I detect with frame 1 if frame 2 is completely loaded?
FAQ 293 How do I detect whether the document is in a frame?
FAQ 294 How do I detect whether document has any frames?
FAQ 297 Is it possible to click on a link in one frame, that opens one document in one of the frames, and another one in the remaining frame?
FAQ 314 How can I click a button in another frame that simulates clicking a button in another frame?
FAQ 315 How do I change the content of a frame in another window?
FAQ 316 How can I close the window from within a frame?
FAQ 317 How can I extend your redirecting access within frames article to use three frames?
FAQ 318 When opening a new window containing a frameset, how can I ensure that one of the frames is opened at a particuar anchor?
FAQ 324 When attempting to change the location of a frame in a window that has just been opened it sometimes fails with window.frame has no properties, why?
FAQ 328 How can I detect when a frame in a frameset is resized?
FAQ 340 Can I change the location of two frames with just one click?
FAQ 371 How can I access the value of a form field in the 2nd frame from the 1st frames popup window?
FAQ 380 How do I find if a particular frame exists before attempting to use a function inside that frame?
FAQ 381 Is it possible to detect from outside a floating frame that the contents have loaded?
FAQ 384 With a button located in frame1, how do I change the contents of both frame1 and frame2 when it's clicked?
FAQ 389 How can I test for the existence of a function in another frame?
FAQ 396 How can I have image buttons that remove and reload the frameset?
FAQ 400 How can I load an image into a main frame when the mouse moves over a link in another frame?
FAQ 404 Is there a way that a button can be kept from reloading a frame again until the frame is reloaded?
FAQ 412 How can I write HTML-text into another frame - rather like a status window?
FAQ 422 How can I get the results of a form submission to be displayed in another frame?
FAQ 445 How can I make sure that people correctly view my pages in the required framesets and not on their own?
FAQ 448 Do you know how I can detect when a frame in a frameset is resized?
FAQ 473 Is it possible for a script to check for frames and if present, get rid of them?
FAQ 488 How can I pass the contents to be loaded into a "generic" frameset definition?
FAQ 511 How do I know which frame has the focus?
FAQ 514 If all of my declared functions are in the parent frame, how can I call those functions from another frame?
FAQ 524 Where can I get more information regarding "hidden frames" is there any site where I can get more information?
FAQ 528 How do I change the pages in two frames when I click a button in a third frame?
FAQ 532 How can I make sure that options selected from a drop down list open up the selection in the current frame if they are local files and opened up in the top frame if they are remote files?
FAQ 534 I have a large list of html files, file_001 onwards, how can I make forward/back buttons in one frame that move through the files in another?
FAQ 559 When using location.replace(theURL) to replace the contents of a Frame within a frameset will the framesets onLoad event handler trigger?
FAQ 566 How can a form button be used to resize the existing frames?
FAQ 582 Is there a way to change the location of another frame to an anchor within that frame regardless of what document is loaded into that frame?
FAQ 591 How do you reload a page in frame 2 from frame 1?
FAQ 592 How can I read the contents of another frame?
FAQ 596 How can I create a three framed frameset in a new window and pass the text entered in a form as the parameters to a perl program to be displayed in one of the frames?
FAQ 608 How can I skip an IFRAME when tabbing through the elements?
FAQ 610 Is it possible to open the browser to a specific HTML frames document and dynamically specify the HTML document to be displayed in either frame?
FAQ 652 How can I clear the contents of another frame?
FAQ 669 How can you change the location of two frames by clicking a text link?
FAQ 680 Is there a way to do these two things : make a link to open a pop up window and specify that one of the two files contained in that pop up window must be open at the anchor specified?
FAQ 698 How can I output half a page to one frame and the other half to another frame?
FAQ 728 How do I change the location of another frame?
FAQ 762 How do I set and display a value on a text field of a frame when I click on a link in a different frame?
FAQ 787 Is it possible to resize a frameset?
FAQ 817 How can I access a variable in the parent frameset of a window that opened a popup window, from within a frame in the popup window?
FAQ 834 How do I pass values from one frame to another in a single frameset?
FAQ 844 How do I set a variable in frame0 of a frameset, read that variable from frame1 of the same frameset, and automatically trigger an image swap in frame2 based on the value of the variable?
FAQ 850 How can I check if a page is loaded in a framset or displayed stand alone, and then load it in the required frameset?
FAQ 853 How can you dynamically write content to a floating frame (IFRAME)?
FAQ 872 How do I change the location of frame 1 and reposition the contents of frame 2 on an anchor using a text link in frame 2?
FAQ 904 How can I tell when both frames of a frameset are loaded?
FAQ 961 Can I have a button in one frame which gets the URL of the page in an adjacent frame and then replaces the frameset with the URL?
FAQ 967 Can you create a complete frameset with only one HTML page?
FAQ 970 How can I load an alien URL (i.e. a URL from another site) in one frame into the top window?
FAQ 971 Is there any way to monitor the contents of a frame, and detect when the location has changed?
FAQ 1005 How can I open an alien frame into a new window?
FAQ 1013 Is it possible to determine the width of another frame?
FAQ 1050 Is there a way to ensure that my framesets and frames are loaded properly and then the current page loads in one of the framesets that I specify?
FAQ 1051 How can I load another document in the second frame after the first frame has completed loading?
FAQ 1052 How do you prevent a user from opening up a frame in a new window??
FAQ 1055 How can I place the link text on a link in a form field in another frame?
FAQ 1056 How can I monitor one frame from another and detect when the contents have changed?
FAQ 1111 How can I tell from one frame when another frame's url changes and have it act accordingly?
FAQ 1149 How can I select which file gets loaded into a frame based on which browser is used when the frameset gets loaded?
FAQ 1151 How can I load an image in a hidden frame, and then if it loads replace a blank image in the displayed frame?
FAQ 1153 How can I write HTML-text into another frame from JavaScript - but from the page that contains the frameset definition?
FAQ 1156 How can I show my main home page and then pre-load other pages in the background?
FAQ 1163 How can I break out off a frame when the submit button is clicked?
FAQ 1216 How can a link in one frame relocate the page in another frame to the top of the page?
FAQ 1249 How can you refresh a frameset from a child window created from one of the frames and subsequently close the child window by way of a button?
FAQ 1291 Is it possible to show/hide a layer in one frame depending on a specific page being loaded in another frame?
FAQ 1343 How can I show/hide a layer in a separate frame?
FAQ 1352 How can I check to to see if I'm being framed by another site, without generating a JavaScript error?
FAQ 1499 How can I pass the contents to be loaded into a "generic" frameset definition?
FAQ 1523 In a frames page, how do I set up the hover buttons in the contents section to remain the same as my mouseover image when clicked, in order to stay selected when loading the linked page?
FAQ 1562 How can I resize a frameset?
FAQ 1587 How do I bookmark a frame using Javascript?
FAQ 1596 How can I accept the name of a page to load in a fraemset from the URL?
FAQ 1608 From a popup window how can I alter the location of the frame that opened the popup window, plus the location of another sibling frame, and then close the popup?
FAQ 1631 How can I chec that a frame that holds a function that I want to invoke has loaded the function successfully?
FAQ 1632 How do I close a window opened by a frame when a new page loads into the creating frame?
FAQ 1634 If I have frames is there a way to delete one of them from a button in another frame?
FAQ 1640 How can I replace a frameset with a single page after a delay?
FAQ 1661 How can I tell when a inline frame has finished loading?
FAQ 1676 How do I submit a form in Frame A from Frame B?
FAQ 1692 How do I apply the title of a page that gets loaded inside a frame to the top frame?
FAQ 1693 Is it possible to stop a form from submitting when enter is pressed?
FAQ 1697 How do I load specific pages into specific frames of an existing frameset site, when the current page is not in a frameset?
FAQ 1703 How can I clear the contents of one frame from another?
FAQ 1707 How can I completely hide a frame in all browsers?
FAQ 1758 How do I know which frame has the focus?