FP98: How to Link to Two Target Frames Using a Single Hyperlink

If your FrontPage Web includes a frame set page, you can set a link to specify the frame in which you would like a page to be displayed.

This article explains how to create a link that will be displayed as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in a frame. (You can also use this procedure to display URLs in multiple frames.)

NOTES:

• The code in this article will function only in a Web browser that supports JavaScript.
• ImageMap hotspots will only refresh one frame as extended attributes are not available in the Image Hotspot Properties dialog box.

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Method 1

1. In FrontPage Editor, open the page on which you want to create the link.
2. Select the text you want for the link and click the Link button on the toolbar. The Create Hyperlink dialog box will appear.
3. In the URL box, type the URL of the first page that you want to load.
4. Click Target Frame, click the frame for the first page, and click OK twice.
5. Click the HTML tab to switch to HTML view.
6. Insert the following onClick parameter in the anchor tag:

   onClick="parent.frames[<n>].location.href='<URL>';"
   						

   where <n> is a number indicating the frame that you want the resource to appear in, and <URL> is the URL of the page that you want to appear in that frame.
   
   NOTE: Frame numbers start at 0; hence, parent.frames[2] indicates the third frame in a collection.You may count frames from top to bottom and then from the left of the screen to the right of the screen. For example this code

   <a href="mypage.htm" onclick="parent.frames[2].location.href='otherpage.htm';">My Link</a>
   						

   will load Otherpage.htm into the third frame in the collection. If you want to load additional frames, repeat step 6 for each frame you want to load (separate each new entry with a space).
7. On the File menu, click Save.

Method 2

1. Point the hyperlink to a new frames page.
2. Set the initial pages of the new frames page to be the desired pages you want the hyperlink to point to.