I Need my Whole Frameset To Refresh Every Time

[Justagreenhorn]

I have a frameset page.

When I click on any link within any frame, I want the whole frameset (ie. all the frames) to be refreshed or reloaded.

Is there a simple way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

[Izzmo]

Well, you can do this.. on anchor tag:

<a href="some_page.html" target="_parent">text</a>

That will go to the page and direct it at the whole page and not one frame.

But in order to "refresh" all of your frames, you will need javascript. That or the page you go to must have the same frameset as the one before if not using some sort of dynamic content (using PHP or ASP.NET)

[Justagreenhorn]

I tried it with the target="_parent", but that just gives the contents of one single frame filling the whole of the new screen, with no more other frames.

If done with javascript, do I need to create a duplicate frameset which is identical to the first one?

How do I do it in javascript? Thank you.

[Izzmo]

With javascript, what you will do is when someone clicks on the link, it will trigger a function which will go to the targeted page as well as "refresh" the other links by also sending the other frames to a page (which is the one they are on).

http://irt.org/script/591.htm

That is a good starting point to figure out how do it.

Let us know if you need any additional help with this problem.

[Justagreenhorn]

In my first post in the thread, I asked how I can refresh the whole frame set.

The reason I want to do this is that I have a banner rotating script installed in frame 3, which I want to refresh when frame 2 is changed by clicking the a-link in frame 1. so that a new random banner will appear in frame 3.

In other words, when I click on a menu item in frame 1, I want, in addition to the normal content change in frame 2, I also want frame 3 to refresh at the same time.

It it possible?

[Izzmo]

Did you go to that link I posted in my previous post? That will show you (basically) how to accomplish this.

[Justagreenhorn]

Q591 How do you reload a page in frame 2 from frame 1?

Try something like:
<A HREF="javascript:parent.framename.location.reload( )">Reload</A>
where framename is the name of frame 2.

Alternatively, you can use the frame index number (1st frame is 0, 2nd frame is 1..., nth frame is n-1), combined with a simple test to see if the browser supports the locaton objects reload() method:

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
function reloadFrame(number) {
if (document.images)
parent.frames[number-1].location.reload();
else
parent.frames[number-1].location.href = parent.frames[number-1].location.href
}
//--></script>

<a href="javascript:reloadFrame(2)">Reload</a>

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Excuse me for being greener than greenhorn. According to the suggestions given there,
the code is used to "reload a page in frame 2 from frame 1".

But what I need is to reload frame 2 and frame 3 from frame 1 at the same time (ie. with only one click of the mouse in frame 1).

How should I modify the code to make it so that?

[Justagreenhorn]

Thanks for the hint Izzmo, I've sorted the problem out.

[Izzmo]

No problem, glad you figured it out.