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Jun 13.2004

I’ve got a site with navigation in the left page of a frameset, with the main pages coming up on the right.

I need to put a “close this frame” button on the navigation page, to just leave the target page.

Anybody know how to do it? I’ve tried close.window and it doesn’t work.

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@PittimannJun 13.2004 — Hi!

Do you want the navigation frame to get blank or do you want to have the "target" page take the entire available space?

Cheers - Pit
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@shirtblokeauthorJun 13.2004 — Hi Pit-

Hello from Aachen's twin town of Halifax.

I need the "target" page take the entire available space.

Any idea how to do it?
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@PittimannJun 14.2004 — Hi!

Example:

<a href="targetPage.htm" target="_top">click</a>

If it needs to be a button or something else but an anchor tag, you can use:

onclick="top.frames.location.href='targetPage.htm'" inside that tag.

Greetings to Halifax :p

Cheers - Pit
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@shirtblokeauthorJun 14.2004 — No that won't work.

The trouble is that the Target page could be anything on the web - I've no idea in advance what the URL of the target is.

I need something that will close the navigation part of the frameset without knowing anything about what is in the target frame.

Is that possible do you think?
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@PittimannJun 14.2004 — Hi!

If you don't know the address how can the user know or the link to be clicked by the user? :p

<a href="#" onclick="top.frames.location.href=top.frames.targetFrameNameGoesHere.location.href">go to unknown page</a>

Cheers - Pit
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@shirtblokeauthorJun 14.2004 — Ah - Getting there.

That code closes down the frame, but it comes up with an "Undefined" error when running it from my hard disk, - This is the URL....

C:My DocumentsWebDesign Stuffshirtblokenewsundefined

and when running from my server it goes straight into my custom 404 page.

See what I mean here....

http://www.easytoremember.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ShirtBloke//news/tester-index.htm

This removes the frame, but then replaces it when the 404 page comes up (which it is supposed to do).
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