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The target tags work if you start out inside the frame. It'll put the file
into the correct window of the frame you're already in. I need to start out
outside of the frame and link to a document within a frame--but not the one
that normally appears if you simply link to the frameset.
Thanks. Any input is welcome.
--Susan
Heidi Waterhouse wrote:
> I think, though I could be wrong, that what you're looking for is target
> tags. I found a good tutorial on the Netscape site, under the frames
> section, but I don't have the url here.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Heidi Waterhouse
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Susan Vineyard [mailto:vineyard -at- CHEROKEE -dot- NSUOK -dot- EDU]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 10:51 AM
> > To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> > Subject: linking to framed document
> >
> >
> > I need to create a link to a specific document on our company Itranet
> > and have it appear in same navigational frame in which the main page
> > appears, so I must control what appears in a named window of the frame
> > with a link. I don't want to use javascript because I have
> > some users
> > with old technology. Is there a way to do this? I think
> > there must be,
> > but I can't locate the code.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --Susan Vineyard
> >
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