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Article #210Re: Netscape and objects in the frames collection
From: Rob Sedgwick
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 00:00
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Steve van Dongen <svandong@uniserve.com> wrote in message news:3776D26C.951E431@uniserve.com... > Rob Sedgwick wrote: > > > > In IE it is possible to access objects in another frame using the > > parent.frames collection, e.g. > > > > parent.frames["bottom"].prev.className = "Style1"; > > > > here "prev" is the id of an image on the page within the frame "bottom" > > > > This does not seem to work in Netscape where the items in the frames > > collection do not seem to refer to the original pages. > > Does anyone know a work-around for this? > > There is no need for a workaround; referring to object in other frames > works using the same code as IE. > > className doesn't work in NN and there is no workaround for that. > OK, maybe that was a bad example. Here's the declaration of the thing I want to modify <A ID=next HREF="gallery2p.htm" target="picture"> <img src="pictures/next.gif" align="right"> </A> And here's trying to modify it from another frame parent.frames["bottom"].next.href = "gallery2p.htm"; NN says "parent.frames.bottom.next has no properties." Rob -- E-mail: rsedgwick@justinfashanu.demon.co.uk ICQ UIN: 26075211 Homepage: http://www.justinfashanu.demon.co.uk Cockatiel Genetics: http://only.at/cockatiels
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