Question

I have a page with 3 frames and I want to push a button in the second frame that will send control to the third frame. Then in the third frame a password will be requested and if it is given correctly the user will be able to continue in the page.
My problem is that when I open the page the password on the third frame is requested automatically. How can I make it so that the password will be asked only if I press the button on the second frame?

Answer 1

there’s a lot of details missing to get a clear answer, however, sounds like the password page is a “Page” and not a domain prompt? so why not load a “staging” page in the 3rd frame, and then when the user clicks the button in the 2nd frame, load the correct page which requires a password.

are all the frames in the domain?
are we talking HTML?
must you use frames?

so when the button is clicked in frame two, you’ll want to set the third frames src attribute to the new page. you can get to it using it’s ID

[FrameID].src = ‘some page’

however, you wont be able to have 2 different domains talk to each other..

i.e. if you have frame 2 from http://www.domain2.com, and in frame 3 you have http://www.domain3.com you wont be able to do that..

but if they’re all on the same domain (www.domain2.com), it wont be a problem..

UPDATE:
you may have to do parent.[FRAMENAME].src = ‘location’

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