[carolsm]

I'm trying to use a javascript to get all pages in my site to open within the main frameset, even if the user comes in from a search engine on something other than the home page. This script goes in the frameset page:


<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--

var ar0 = "frame1.html";
var ar1 = "frame2.html";


var str = location.search;
var pos = str.indexOf("&");
if (pos != -1) {
var num = str.substring(pos + 1, str.length);
window["ar" + num] = str.substring(1, pos);
}

// -->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--

document.write(
'<FRAMESET COLS="200, *">',
'<FRAME SRC="', ar0, '" NAME="menu">',
'<FRAME SRC="', ar1, '" NAME="main">',
'</FRAMESET>'
);

// -->
</SCRIPT>


and this one goes in each page that has to open in the frameset:


<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--

if (top.location.href.indexOf("frameset.html") == -1)
top.location.href = "frameset.html?mainpage.html&1";

// -->
</SCRIPT>


It works just fine if the page I am trying to force into the frameset is in the same directory as the frameset. However, if I try to force a page from a sub-directory into the frameset, it doesn't work; it just opens in a full window. I have tried all combinations of "../" on the two frameset.html references in the head of the page I am trying to force, but that doesn't seem to be enough. What other bit of code needs to be changed to get "subfolder/subpage.html" to be forced into the framset?

[AcaCandy]

Hi Carol and welcome.

I saw your request to move this, I believe this is the best place for it at the moment.

This post will bump it back to the top again for folks to have another look.

[Shadow2531]

Just don't use relative URIs in the javascript contained in the files in the subfolders.

e.g.

If you go to the page http://www.yoursite.com/test/sub.htm.

In the sub.htm javascript you force the location like this.

'../index.htm?http://www.yoursite.com/test/sub.htm'

(where index.htm is your frameset page)

You just have to make sure your location.search code is set up to handle the full URI.

You could also use javascript to get the URI of the subpage an store it in a variable to use. That way the site will be portable and you won't have to change the static URIs in the javascript for the subpages.

So in the javascript of your subpage, you could have something like this. (depending on the method you use to force frames).

PHP Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
x=location;
var correct_frame = 0 + (parent.menu ? 1 : 0);
if (parent.location.href == self.location.href || !correct_frame)
window.location.href = '../index.htm?' + x;
//-->
</script> 


That example was part of a force frame for a 3 frame frameset.

If you're posting a link somewhere of one of your subpages or any other page besides the default frame, you would want to put the full uri after the question mark anyways.

Now if you don't like having the full URI of the subpage, you can make the javascript in your frameset page better.

for example, in the sub.htm page referred to above, you could use window.location.href='../index.htm?sub.htm';

Then you would have to setup the javascript in your frameset page to know that if sub.htm comes after the question mark, "test/sub.htm" should be loaded in the frame.

Doing it that way would still allow the site to be portable and allow you to have whatever alias you want for each sub page.

e.g index.htm?this_is_cool could take the vistor to some subfolder or whatever.

[carolsm]

Thanks. I think I had already tried the full URL, and just tried it again, and it doesn't work that way either. It just shows the page from the subfolder in a full window. You did say "You just have to make sure your location.search code is set up to handle the full URL" which may be the problem (I got this code off of a website; I don't really speak Java), and I don't know how to do that. Help again?

Thanks!

[carolsm]

Never mind! I just found an extra "../" that was getting in the way. Using the absolute URL to force the page into the frameset worked.

Thanks for your help!