Need assistance with incorperating HTML and Email/forms into JavaScript

You can see what I am working on at www.freewebs.com/demogovclan/. The problem I am encountering is that the navigational bar on the upper frame was downloaded and now I am seeing that it really wasn't made for frames. In the JavaScript, it asks for an address but because I want it to display in the second frame, I need it to target it. It will have to work in the "url" section below. This is taken from a JS file:

// add main link item ("url","Link name",width,"text-alignment","_target","alt text",top position,left position,"key trigger")
addMainItem("www.freewebs.com/demogovclan/home.html","<span class='u'>H</span>ome",128,"center","","",0,0,"h");

The URL part is where I am having difficulites. I found this by browsing the web: "javascript:top.frames['framename'].location='filename.html';return true".

I tried this and it doesn't load the page and only gives me a error down in the IE status bar. I know I have the framename and file name right but the top.frames is what I think is throughing it off. Please help if you can.



A little side note. I need to create of form that has a bunch of fields (first name, screenname, age, sex, email, comments) that will write it to an email and send it to me that way. I've searched the web and really haven't come up with anything useful for this.

I'm also searching for something for the same script as above that will open your email composer with the email address already in the "to" field. It needs to also work in the URL type fashion in JavaScript. I've tried a mailto and just the email address and it comes up with an error that the page cannot be found. It will have to work in the "url" section below. This is taken from a JS file:

// add child menu link items ("url","Link name","_target","alt text")
addChildmenuItem("http://www.nbc.com","NBC","","");

Thanks in advance

I'll preface with the fact that I have never really done much with frames and javascript but I got this out of my javascript book and thought it might help.

frames is an property of the window object.

The frame object contains the following properties
frames (an array of objects for each frame in a window. Frames appear in the order in which they appear in the HTML source code.)
parent (a string indicating the name of the window conaining the frameset)
self (an alternative for the name of the current window)
top (an alternative for the name of the topmost window)
window( an alternative for the name of the current window)


Because of this I think you should change your code to one of the following... since I havn't tested this myself I'm not sure which one will work...

1. window.frames.top.location
2. window.frames[0].location (assuming 0 is the topmost frame)
3. window.top.location
4. window.frames.frames[0].location

I've put them in the order of most likely to work to least likely to work.

You probobably wont need to have the "window" included (except possibly will be needed in option 3)

Hopefully this will help.

As far as the e-mail section... I would only know how to do this if you have access to perl/cgi.