Question

Have a dropdown with a bunch of links alongwith Open directly, Next and Previous buttons on IE8.

var count = -1
var total = 24

function goToNext() 
{
 count = parent.nav.openfile.file.selectedIndex
 count ++ 
 if  (count > total)
count = 0;
  parent.display.location= parent.nav.openfile.file.options[count].value
  parent.nav.openfile.file.selectedIndex = count
}

function goToPrevious() 
{
  count = parent.nav.openfile.file.selectedIndex
  count --
  if  (count < 0)
count = total;
  parent.display.location=parent.nav.openfile.file.options[count].value
  parent.nav.openfile.file.selectedIndex = count
}

function LoadFirst() 
{
 parent.display.location=parent.nav.openfile.file.options[0].value
}


function OpenDirectly() 
{
  parent.display.location = parent.nav.openfile.file.options[parent.nav.openfile.file.selectedIndex ].value
}

<FRAMESET  ROWS="45,*"> 
<FRAME 
 BORDER="1"
 FRAMEBORDER="YES"
 MARGINHEIGHT="10" 
 MARGINWIDTH="10" 
 NAME="nav" 
 SCROLLING="NO" 
 SRC="/Slide/test.jsp"
/> 
<FRAME 
  BORDER="1"
  FRAMEBORDER="YES"
  MARGINHEIGHT="10" 
  MARGINWIDTH="10" 
  NAME="display" 
  ID="display"
  SCROLLING="AUTO" 
  SRC="/page.html"
 /> 
 </FRAMESET> 

Above is the code(test.jsp followed by the HTML code containing main frame and navigation frame – the navigation frame is navigation and all the links within it should open within the main frame) which gets called on click of these buttons to move forward, previous or load directly. The issue is that these links open in either new window or new tab but never in same window. Would highly appreciate if anyone provides any recommendations around the same.

Answer 1

On every link of navigation page, you need to add the target of the display frame or better add <base target="display"> to the head section of test.jsp. The target decides where to open the link in.