update frame with javascript

[shuki]

hello guys
i'm newbie here so it might sound like a stupid quastion
i have 4 frame - 3 on the left and one main on the right
i have links in one of the small frame that changes the page on the
main frame,that work fine
i want that with that click, that another frame will get a parameter to
a textbox

i've tried this link but it doesn't work
<a href=".\000.PDF" target="Main"
onclick="javascript:top.left2.form1.TextBox1.Text= 24'>
000.PDF</a>

please your advise

[bwucke]

shuki wrote:

hello guys
i'm newbie here so it might sound like a stupid quastion
i have 4 frame - 3 on the left and one main on the right
i have links in one of the small frame that changes the page on the
main frame,that work fine
i want that with that click, that another frame will get a parameter to
a textbox

i've tried this link but it doesn't work
<a href=".\000.PDF" target="Main"
onclick="javascript:top.left2.form1.TextBox1.Text= 24'>
000.PDF</a>

please your advise

onclick="parent.left2.form1.TextBox1.value=24;'

- You don't know if your frameset doesn't live within other frameset
- onClick invokes javascript function, not URL. No need to add
javascript:
- .value is the property containing the content of inputs.

[shuki]

i've tried that - but it doesn't work also.
let me understand -
parent is the host page of all the frames ?
then i get to the "brother" frame (left2) and then to the form in left2
am i right ?
what is the document object ?

[shuki]

this is my framesets

<frameset cols="20%,80%">
<frameset rows="30%,40%,*">
<frame name="UserInfo" src="UserInfo.aspx">
<frame name="FileList" src="FileList.aspx">
<frame name="Actions" src="Actions.aspx">
</frameset>
<frame name="DocMain">
</frameset>

in the file list i have a list of files that when i click the link they
are opened in the main frame
each link is build like this
<a href="000.pdf" target=DocMain>
i wan to add to the click on the link the ability that it would send
the name of the file to the actions frame
what to do????
this is my first frame project and i don't know too much
javascript........
thax

[bwucke]

shuki wrote:

i've tried that - but it doesn't work also.
(well, I didn't say I don't do mistakes also. Most of these things I
type from memory without any check whatsoever so often I miss
something. We're getting closer to the Truth, but not quite there.)
let me understand -
parent is the host page of all the frames ?
Just of current frame. And its siblings. It still can be contained
within other frameset document, being one of its frames (frame
containing more frames). One of these will eventually be 'top', but the
true 'parent' of your frame family is 'parent'.
then i get to the "brother" frame (left2) and then to the form in left2 am i right ? Yes.
what is the document object ?
good point, missed this one. The frame (or window) is a 'viewport', a
piece of the browser yet. A box that will contain the document. You
don't have much control over it for security reasons, because it
contains all the browser functionality - lots and lots of functions
responsible for all the user can do with the browser.
Document is the basic canvas underlying the content (not displayable
yet, but containing all the rest), but it's part of the content
already. You 'own' the document and are free to do whatever you wish to
it. Add/remove content, read, write, whatever. It also contains the
data the page contains...

onclick="parent.actions.document.form1.TextBox1.va lue=this.src;'
(I think...)

left2 by itself doesn't contain much of your data. Besides all the
browser stuff for most of which you don't have any access anyway, it
just contains 'document'. And 'document' contains all the rest,
including your form. My screwup.
this is my first frame project and i don't know too much
javascript........

Read lots and lots of online docs. It's all there. Look for DevEdge
Sidebar, it's an invaluable resource. (grab a version that has
Javascript reference included - several different ones float around the
web). Read http://www.quirksmode.org/ for lots of techniques used in
js. When you are through, read http://www.crockford.com/javascript/ for
deeper insight into the language.

[shuki]

i read a little in the quirksmode site and it was pretty good for the
basic knowlege but still i couldn't get to the right command to do the
job - it keep alerting to me that the item is null or not an object
i tried to do it throw a function on the traget html like this
<script language=vbscript>
public function SetDocSN(sn)
DocSN.text=sn
end function
</script>

and then to do
'onclick=parent.actions.document.form1.SetDocSN(24 )'
but it says "object requared"

please helppppp !!!!!!!!!!!

[bwucke]

shuki napisal(a):

i read a little in the quirksmode site and it was pretty good for the
basic knowlege but still i couldn't get to the right command to do the
job - it keep alerting to me that the item is null or not an object
i tried to do it throw a function on the traget html like this
<script language=vbscript>
public function SetDocSN(sn)
DocSN.text=sn
end function
</script>

and then to do
'onclick=parent.actions.document.form1.SetDocSN(24 )'
but it says "object requared"

How did you get vbscript into this???
What kind of input is that if you need vbscript to write to it?

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

shuki wrote:

i've tried that - but it doesn't work also.
Tried what?

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let me understand -
parent is the host page of all the frames ?
In a sense, (window.)parent refers to the "host page" of all frames within
the same nesting level as the current frame. In that sense, (window.)top
refers to the "host page" of all the frames, meaning that (window.)parent
== (window.)top if the current frame (the one `window' refers to) is nested
one level deep.

You should use the term "frameset document" instead of the term "host page".
then i get to the "brother" frame (left2) and then to the form in left2
am i right ?
what is the document object ?

<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Authoring_Guides_.2F_Reference_Material >

Try any JavaScript Reference before version 1.4, since in v1.4 core
JavaScript language and the (Netscape Navigator) DOM have been separated.
PointedEars