Can I refresh a seperate frame?

Anon

Hi There,

Can anyone tell me how I can set the footer frame to refresh each time the main frame is refreshed?

My problem is that the footer frame contains a nav menu which displays links dependant on the page being viewed. This works fine if I include it in the main frame, but then the user can scroll down and it's out of view. If I put it in the footer frame it only loads the once and doesn't refresh when the main frame is changes.

I've tried using the <META refresh...> tag but I can't seem to get it to work with a target.

Any ideas???

sarahk

what about
<body onload="dorefresh('botframe')">

then the javascript would be

function dorefresh(cName){
var curURL = parent.frame[cName].location
parent.frame[cName].location = curURL
}

check syntax, I can't code js off the top of my head too well. If that doesn't force a refresh have an intemediate step to set the location to "myblank.htm".

Anon

Thanks, but I'm trying to avoid using JavaScript a) because I know little about it and b) because I don't want to rely on something that the user can disable.

I'm calling the following common head information in all my scripts:

function do_html_header($location)
{
// print a HTML header
?>

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/DDCweb/DPE.css" />
<title>NPE Design Data Control</title>
<? header("location: /DDCWeb/footer.php"); ?>
</head>
<body>
<p><?echo date ("h, i, s"); echo $location?></p>
<?
}

What I need is some kind of php or html page refresher that will allow me to set a target frame.

Anon

Thanks Sarah,

It seems JavaScript was the only way to go. I did slightly modify your script though:

Cheers, Jo