One link opening many pages

[Anon]

Okay heres the deal, on my site I am using frames and its in this type of arrangement:top left corner, bottom left (navigation bar), right (which is main).

Now what i would like to do is that whenever somebody clicks a link on the navigation bar (bottom left) it will open a page in the main section (which it does) but i would also like it to open a new pic in the top left corner. So basically i want to change two frames with the click of one link, any idea how to do that? Is there a html code that will do that?

At first i tried to have two <a href's one after another but only the second one opened. then i had both of the addresses in the same <a href but only the first address opened... well certain time, other times the browser read it all as the same address and the server would go on to tell me that there was not a website found witht hat name.

anyway, help please? thanks

[Anon]

javascript is your friend here.

keep your <A href> tag as would normally open the link in the main window.
then add an onClick event.

sorta like this:
<A target=name_of_main_frame href=your/url/here onClick="document.frames[0].location='your/new/url/here';">

note here: frames[0] means the first frame you create, i think you can also say frames['top'] if the name of your top frame is top

hope this helps at all (I just hope it works)
stef

[Anon]

Thanks for your help stef,

I gave it a try and it didnt seem to wanna cooperate at all. but i could have been missing something. You said javascript is my friend here, how do you mean ? and what do i have to do there? you arent going to make me learn a whole new coding language are you?🙂 hehe

aww its all god if you are i was just going to try and stay away from it though..... not a big deal though..🙂

Thankful for your assistance, 🙂

Hope to hear from you, or someone else again (or in the case of someone else, for the first time)

Joe