Interactive Buttons open new window

[Hal Horrocks]

I set up a header frame on my website and used interactive buttons for
navigation to the main topics on the site. The site comes up fine but when I
active any of the buttons a new web page opens. If I go to the new opened
web page (which also includes the same frame and buttons) I can navigate
freely around the site.

When I go back to the first page that was opened originally and press any of
the buttons, the second window displays the information.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP - FrontPage]

can you give us a link to the site?
what's happening here is that you've got a name for the top frame that
contains the buttons and a name for the main page that's supposed to show
the content.
You'll need to add target="name-of-the-main-frame" to the <a> tag of the
link.

seeing the page would help.

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[Hal Horrocks]

Thanks Chris, the web site is at www.HorrocksGenealogy.com.
Hal

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

In your top frame page w/ the IB remove from the HEAD section <base target="contents">


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| Thanks Chris, the web site is at www.HorrocksGenealogy.com.
| Hal
|
| "Chris Leeds, MVP - FrontPage" wrote:
|
| > can you give us a link to the site?
| > what's happening here is that you've got a name for the top frame that
| > contains the buttons and a name for the main page that's supposed to show
| > the content.
| > You'll need to add target="name-of-the-main-frame" to the <a> tag of the
| > link.
| >
| > seeing the page would help.
| >
| > --
| > Chris Leeds
| > Contact: http://chrisleeds.com/contact
| > Have you seen ContentSeed (www.contentseed.com)?
| > NOTE:
| > This message was posted from an unmonitored email account.
| > This is an unfortunate necessity due to high volumes of spam sent to email
| > addresses in public newsgroups.
| > Sorry for any inconvenience.
| > | > >I set up a header frame on my website and used interactive buttons for
| > > navigation to the main topics on the site. The site comes up fine but
| > > when I
| > > active any of the buttons a new web page opens. If I go to the new opened
| > > web page (which also includes the same frame and buttons) I can navigate
| > > freely around the site.
| > >
| > > When I go back to the first page that was opened originally and press any
| > > of
| > > the buttons, the second window displays the information.
| > >
| > > Thanks for any help.
| >
| >
| >

 

[Ronx]

Your buttons are opening the pages in a window named "contents",
however, your contents frame is named "main".

There is a tag in header.htm that should be changed, in code view, from
<base target="contents">
to
<base target="main">
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[Hal Horrocks]

Hi Ronx,
Thanks for the input. However, all this does is open the header again in
the main part of the page. I will keep the modified site up for another
couple of hours so you can see what I mean.

I am probably doing something very wrong in the original program. Each of
the 'index' pages from each section open the 'header' page and frame. I do
not have the expertise to figure out what is going on. I wanted to use
buttons but may be I'll just go back to hyper links.
Thanks to everyone for there help.
Hal

 

[Ronx]

You have made all the linked pages framesets. There are 2 options here:
1) make the content page in each folder index.htm, so that the framesets
are gone. (Home page should be linked to intro_page.htm, not to
index.htm)

2) Change the base target tag discussed earlier to
<base target="_top">
This will overwrite the entire frameset with a new frameset - not much
point in using frames since all the advantages are now gone.

3) Dispense with frames altogether.

My choice would be 3), with 1) as second choice.
Frames will cause your users more problems, since opening a content page
on its own (from a search engine link, for example) will give the user
no navigation.

For choice 3) you can lay out the page with a Dynamic Web Template,
using the same layout, or use a FrontPage include file to include the
navigation (header.htm) at the top of each page. The links must still
be changed to point to the content pages.
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[Hal Horrocks]

Thank you. I knew I had to have done something wrong. #3 looks like the
easiest for me. Thank you again for all your help.
Best regards,
Hal