Frames, Searches

January 12, 200125 yr

Having problems with frames...

I've created a simple web search form that queiries a FMP 4.1 db and returns the information to a record page. The two web files work well and interact with the db fine.

For ease-of-use, I would like to keep the search form on the left hand side of a frame and report the results in another frame. This would allow the user to have search and report functions without jumping back and forth between pages.

However, I have yet to find a way to have the results enter the right hand portion of the frame. When a search is executed, the results show up in the same frame as the search page.

I've searched through the Forum questions/answers and have not come up with anything that will work...

The coding for the frames is below..

<DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 transitional//EN"

"http: //www.w3.org./TR/xhtml1/DTD/transitional.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title>Production Webstie: Project Schedule</title>

</head>

</frameset>

</html>

January 14, 200124 yr

Make sure that each frame on the frameset has been given a unique name (preferably short and without spaces, like "menu" and "results"); then make sure that the links on the menu page all specify the target frame correctly.

January 15, 200124 yr

Author

figured it out...from the beginning I thought i would have to reference the frame in the CDML format tag somehow...CDML has nothing to do with it...after naming each frame with a unique identifier, (search for the search frame, head for the head frame and results for the frame where all search results would be shown) as normal in html, I added the <base target = "resutls"> tag between the <head>...</head> tags...worked like a charm...

...now all the results from the search show up in the rightside frame...

Thanks

pc