access url of imbedded frame page?

Dev Shed Forums Sponsor:

June 1st, 2005, 01:26 PM

craftyfriend

Registered User

Join Date: Jun 2005

Posts: 7

Time spent in forums: 57 m 40 sec
Reputation Power: 0

access url of imbedded frame page?

I have an iframe which contains two further frames. One of those frames changes. Is there a way, through javascript or any other method, that i can tell from the top level which page has been loaded? I tried location.href, but can only get the url of the frameset that is the iframe, not the pages loaded below it. Any ideas?

June 1st, 2005, 03:51 PM

Kravvitz

CSS & JS/DOM Adept

Dev Shed God 30th Plane (19500 - 19999 posts)

Join Date: Jul 2004

Location: USA

Posts: 19,893

Time spent in forums: 6 Months 2 Days 19 h 21 m 49 sec
Reputation Power: 4192

Showing us your code would be helpful.

This link might be helpful.

__________________
Spreading knowledge, one newbie at a time. I'm available for hire at Dynamic Site Solutions.

Check out my blog. | Learn CSS. | PHP includes | X/HTML Validator | CSS validator | Common CSS Mistakes | Common JS Mistakes

Remember people spend most of their time on other people's sites (so don't violate web design conventions).

June 1st, 2005, 05:07 PM

craftyfriend

Registered User

Join Date: Jun 2005

Posts: 7

Time spent in forums: 57 m 40 sec
Reputation Power: 0

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kravvitz

Showing us your code would be helpful.

This link might be helpful.

I have a mainpage "photoindex.html".
On that page I have an iframe:

Code:

<iframe name="gallery" src="galleryframes.html" frameborder="0" width="550" height="720" border="0" scrolling="no" id="gallery"></iframe>

In "galleryframes.html" I have:

Code:

<frameset rows="145, *" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0">
	<frame name="slide" src="slide.html" scroll="yes">
	<frame name="display" src="display.html">
</frameset>

The page loaded into the frame "display" changes.

I'm trying to write a function from the mainpage, that tells me what page is loaded into the display frame. I believe the problem is that the iframe is considered an object rather than a frame, so i cant access the frames below it.

Right now I have something that looks like

Code:

 <script language="javascript">
<!--
function get_url() {
var frame_url = frames['gallery'].location.href;
return frame_url;
}
-->
</script>

But this only gives me the url of "galleryframes.html" and I can't get it to work with any frame below that.

Thanks for your help
Lauren

Comments on this post

jsKid agrees: thank you for making a serious attempt to solve the problem yourself... it makes a difference to us
all... seriously...

June 1st, 2005, 07:36 PM

Kravvitz

CSS & JS/DOM Adept

Join Date: Jul 2004

Location: USA

Posts: 19,893

Time spent in forums: 6 Months 2 Days 19 h 21 m 49 sec
Reputation Power: 4192

You almost had it.
You forgot the double slashes in from of the end of the HTML comment.
The language attribute of the script element is deprecated in favor of the type attribute.
Also, there wasn't any reason to make a new variable just so you could return it.

Code:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
function get_url() {
return frames['gallery'].frames['display'].location.href;
}
// -->
</script>

Firefox, Netscape 6+, IE4+, and Opera 6+ support this.

Comments on this post

jsKid agrees: nifty... if I *ever* used frames.

Last edited by Kravvitz : June 1st, 2005 at 07:38 PM.

June 1st, 2005, 09:49 PM

craftyfriend

Registered User

Join Date: Jun 2005

Posts: 7

Time spent in forums: 57 m 40 sec
Reputation Power: 0

Thanks for your help.. Unfortunately it doesnt work. I get the error, 'frames.gallery.frames.display.location' is null or is not an object. Here is my page...

http://photofinishstudios.com/photoindex.html

Any more ideas?

June 1st, 2005, 11:30 PM

Kravvitz

CSS & JS/DOM Adept

Join Date: Jul 2004

Location: USA

Posts: 19,893

Time spent in forums: 6 Months 2 Days 19 h 21 m 49 sec
Reputation Power: 4192

You're calling it with document.write(). You can't do that because that statement will be executed before all of the frames load.

access url of imbedded frame page?

Developer Shed Advertisers and Affiliates