Re: Writing To Frame That Didn't Call The Script

Your question is a little bit hazy... if you mean that you want a link to push content into a different frame, then refer to that other frame (by name) in the target of the <a href...> tage or the <form ...> tag that is pushing the request.

If what you mean is that you've loaded a page into frame X, but want (as a result of loading that page) to alter content in a different frame, then you can do this with simple javascript (not sure how browser portable this is or isn't... try it yourself!):

print "
   <script language=jscript>
   top.$frameName.document.innerHTML = ...
   </script>
";
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or however you want to manipulate the innerHTML of that document.

Or, you can (more simply) just push a new page into that other frame:

print "
   <script language=jscript>
   top.$frameName.document.location = '$other_page.pl';
   </script>
";
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That sort of thing. Good luck.

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Re: Re: Writing To Frame That Didn't Call The Script by MrSteeple (Initiate) on Mar 18, 2004 at 06:41 UTC
You understood what I need! Thanks for the ideas, I'll explore the JavaScript side of things further. I would just have preferred perl over javascript, thats all. Thank you very much you two (etcShadow, Happy_The-Monk). jZed? Thanks for the sarcasm (got a good laugh), but you really have to work on your people skills. lol see you :-)	[reply]