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Re: Grouping input from multiple frames
>gordon,
>
>Actually what I want to do is slightly different. I don't want my
>javascript to generate the html for the third frame. What I want is
>simplier than that. I want to use the javascript to call a custom URL
>that will have the third frame as the target.
>
>In this manner the JS will validate the input in the two frames, then
>form a URL like:
>http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/myExecute?Data+data+data
>and send this with the target being the bottom frame.
>
>gp
>
>
>At 16:08 PM 3/13/96 EST, you wrote:
> > If I understand you correctly, you want to provide input in two frames,
and
> > use that to build the content of the third frame. That's done by writing
> > the whole document for the third frame "on-the-fly." You can set up a
blank
> > window for the third frame with about:blank in the SRC= of the frameset
> > document, or use an empty file, or whatever content you want to show
there.
> > You then write to that frame with document.write, using the syntax (I'm
> > calling the third frame "frame3"):
> >
> > Result = "<HTML><BODY>blah blah blah</BODY></HTML>";
> > parent.frame3.document,.write (Result);
> >
> > Of course, you'll probably need to build a pretty long string. You can do
> > that with the old concatenation trick:
> >
> > Result = "start of string ";
> > Result += "more of the string ";
> > Result += "and even more"
> >
> > I have an example of a perpetual calendar at my site that generates the
> > content of the second frame. It was the first JavaScript program I
wrote,
> > and it has some "long way around" code, but the output stuff should still
be
> > valid (I've since rewritten the calendar, but haven't had a chance to
upload
> > it yet). You might look at that to see if it gives you any ideas. (My
> > background selector uses a similar technique, too, but its size makes it
a
> > little harder to piece out.)
> >
> > I hope I understood your request.
> >
> > -- Gordon
> > http://gmccomb.com/javascript/
> >
> >
> > At 05:15 PM 3/13/96 EST, you wrote:
> > >Hello all,
> > >
> > >I am trying to write a page w/ multiple frames, in which two of the
> > >frames are input frames, and the combination of the input is
> > >used to build the third frame.
> > >
> > >Does anyone have any examples of this? I looked at the form example
> > >that Gordon did (which is cool).
> > >
> > >I am thinking of adding hidden objects to one of the frames, and
> > >filling them in from the other input frame.
> > >
> > >Any other ideas?
> > >
> > >gp
> > >
> > -- Gordon
> > http://gmccomb.com/javascript/
> >
I have a page at http://www2.msstate.edu/~mab7/JB.html go check it out
The page has two frames, a small vertical frame on the far left and the rest to
the right is my main page. How could I have a link like read my guestbook in
the small frame and make the guestbook appear in the big frame.
=-=-=-=-=-Jamie Buehler
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