Re: Trouble with Frames!

by "Rhonda Goudy" <r.goudy(at)home.com>

 Date:  Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:50:10 -0400
 To:  "html" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
 References:  earthlink
  todo: View Thread, Original
As a suggestion - you could just put a link "back to top" and back to the
navbar....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Simmons" <rsimmons8(at)earthlink.net>
To: "html" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 3:36 PM
Subject: Trouble with Frames!


> Hi there,
>
> I'm working on a glossary page with two frames: one on top for the
> linked alphabet and site navigation bar; and one on the bottom for the
> scrollable glossary. The problem is, when I click on one of the linked
> letters in the top frame, rather than move to the linked anchor in the
> bottom frame, the entire glossary page reloads to that anchor. I figure
> it has to be something I'm doing wrong with my "target".
>
> What I don't know for sure, however, is whether what I want to do is
> possible with frames. I know that if it was one page then, yes, it would
> go quickly to the anchor, but then you'd have to have some way for the
> user to get back to the navigation bar. I thought that by using frames
> the navbar and alphabet would always be available, but the way it's
> working - reloading every time - is just too slow.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions, or better yet, what I'm doing wrong, will be
> greatly appreaciated.
>
> TIA,
>
> Robert
>

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