Re: Still having link problems opening in middle frame

From: Thomas A. Rowe (tarowe_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:19:15 -0400

On your actual frameset page, remove the target values, then on indexleft and indexright, select
each link and set the target value to the actual name of the middle frame, which is
"Fidelios_Film_Central" 

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"Fidelio" <fidelio1st@netzero.net> wrote in message
news:DE556750-C0F4-44E6-8DF2-F74FD3FB49D5@microsoft.com...
> Re: www.geocities.com/fidelio1st/film.htm
>
> The problem I'm having is getting my links on the left and right frames to open in the middle
frame.  I created a template of the top, left, and right frames.  (I'm in the middle of a redesign,
so not all links are supposed to work yet, some link to old website)
>
> 1) if you go to the film page, link above, the links seem to work (in the left frame, top 3
links).  But then, if you go to the "Ripley page" from the middle, then click on "Bookmark/Link
 Page", this takes you to what looks the same, but has the link:
http://www.geocities.com/fidelio1st/film/ripleysgame.html
>
> I set it up this way so I can google each individual page.  So it's the same template as the film
page, as you can see.  But now the links (if you try the top 3 on the left side again) don't open in
the middle frame, they open in a new window.  Why is this?  My target frame hasn't changed.
>
> I was given this advice:
>
> In the frameset HTML, remove the target values from each page, and also remove the <base
> target="_parent"> in the head of the frameset page
>
> And I took those out.  It seemed to help my problem at first, but then it created the problem
above.  Any help appreciated.

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