[thelist] Frames, Javascript and IE 5.5 continued....

[Peter-Paul Koch]

>".jeff" wrote:
> > probably cause you're not referencing it correctly.  if you want the 
>browser
> > to initiate a page change, then you need to change the href property of 
>the
> > location object.
> >
> > parent.framename.location.href = '/dir/page.html';
>
>and Peter-Paul Koch added:
>
> > I used to think so too, but I just tested it and found no difference at 
>all
> > between location and location.href: both work fine in IE5.5
>
>Peter's right - I've just tried this and had no joy at all :-(
>Any other ideas? (please :-)

No, not really. I did some testing (see 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/hreftest/frametesting.html for the pages) and 
found that

1) IE 5.5 supports parent.framename.location fine
2) IE 5.0 does NOT support location = 'newpage.html' or location.href = 
'newpage.html' !!!

Sorry, I'm out of ideas.

ppk

>Original problem:
> > :~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > : From: Katherine Spice
> > :
> > : Can anybody tell me why the following
> > : snippet of javascript (which works with
> > : NN 2-6, Mozilla, and IE 3-5) won't work
> > : with IE 5.5?
> > :
> > : parent.framename.location = "/dir/page.html";
> > :~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



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