Mark Hensler — Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:02:39 +0000

Vincent-
Thanks, I felt as though I was stumbling aroung in the dark, lol.

Vincent Puglia — Sat, 11 Nov 2000 19:56:00 +0000

Hi Ian,

First things first. If you are attempting to change a page's (or frame's) title, it will only work with IE. Netscape will not allow you to change the title of an already loaded page/frame. So...although I haven't tried it with frames, I believe it also will not work because the HTML meta tag is loaded, interpreted, and executed before any javascript.

Secondly, the code Max gave you (in fact any code with the keyword 'all' in the DOM -- document object model) is IE-specific (and nowadays NN ver6).

Finally, if you want to try with document.write, the syntax would be:

But, as I said Netscape will probably balk. To make it completely crossbrowser, you would probably have to create the page dynamically, and then load it into the frame you want (probably more work than worth).

If you want to see a tutorial on the title property, see the script/tutorial by that name at my site.

Vinny

BTW Max: You're doing a good job

Mark Hensler — Sat, 11 Nov 2000 18:07:22 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by ianrules
but i dont wanna use the TITLE tag as the variable.

Oooohh... I didn't the part about the nav bar before, sorry.

Well, again, all I can think of is that you could give some tags (h3 or whatever) id. Then address them like this:
parent.framename.document.all.titleID.innerHTML = "my new title"
You'd put this on the content page, and point it to the tags in the nav frame that have the id.

I don't know if that will work or not, never tried.

ianrules — Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:22:15 +0000

sorry i guess i didn't phrase my question correctly
on the content page

and on the nav-bar page:

can javascript work across 2 frames like above?
or do i have to edit the code to let the browser know that the variable title is defined in another window.

but i dont wanna use the TITLE tag as the variable.

Mark Hensler — Sat, 11 Nov 2000 04:17:28 +0000

forgot about client side...

I don't know how this would be done client side. I've never tried. Vincent would probably know.

*maybe* (this is a highly uneducated guess) you could give the tags an id. Then address them like this:
parent.framename.document.all.titleID.innerHTML = "my new title"

Mark Hensler — Sat, 11 Nov 2000 04:09:41 +0000

Yes... you can change the . Just how do you want to do it?

Server side? this is easy. you just have to change every link on every page to do it. Here's the psuedo-logic.
every link will go to a 'template' .asp file. the .asp file will print HTML to the browser containing your frame info, with the requested page in the proper frame. At the same time, we insert the correct for the requested page.

example

<%
'index.asp

' What page was requested?
Page = Request.QueryString("page")

'What's the <title> for this page?
Select Case Page
  Case "home.html":
    Title = "This is my home page"
  Case "links.html":
    Title = "These are some of the best links around!"
  Case Else:
    Title = "My.Com"
End Select

'Print the template frame page
%>
<html>
<head>
<title><strong><%=Title%></strong></title>
</head>

<FRAMESET ROWS="10%,*" border=0>
<FRAME NAME="left" SRC="nav.html">
<FRAME NAME="body" SRC="<strong><%=Page%></strong>">
</FRAMESET>

</html>

All your links would have to be converted to look like this:

I haven't tested this code, but the thoery is sound. I use similar logic on my site (AtomicPixels.Com), which is written in PHP.

This is the "Quick 'N Dirty" way to do this. If your into databases, that would be the better way to go.

Good Luck,