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Hi…
Can anyone shed any light on the following problem.
I am currently working on a page that is comprised of 4 frames. 3 frames have site information and menu type data, and 1 is used to view pages selected by using the submenu (consider the 4th frame to be the content frame).
The design point of the page is to be able to view various pages in the content window by selecting the page from the menu. In 99% of the cases, the “content” pages are external to my site.
With most pages that are being loaded the target= tag works properly and the page is loaded into the appropriate frame. However, some pages disregard the target= tag, and spawn a new window, or worse yet, trigger the new page load to _top and replace my primary page. From this point, any link clicked on from my original frame page (ie. my menu) opens in this new window, and will not load in my content frame.
It is as if the content page has been renamed, and the new window that was spawned has been renamed as the name of the original content taget frame.
I know that some sites force themselves to be opened in the _top window and thus do not allow themselves to be opened in a frame through Javascript, however is there a way to get around it, or at the very least allow that child window to be opened, but have other links still open in the original content window?
I have searched many sites on this topic, and have thus far come up empty, so I hope my explanation is clear, and that someone can offer some advice.
Thanks very much.