<div> tag ...yes IE no Firefox

I have an application using a series of HTML frames.

In 'frame_X' I have a <div> tag with id="showdata"

Once an event happens in 'frame_A' I need to update the contents of the <div> tag in 'frame_X'.

I use the following line of code located in 'frame_A' to do this

if (this.happens)
{
parent.frame_X.showdata.innerHTML = newdatareceivedfromframe_A;
}

This works fine in IE > v4 but does not work at all in Firefox (Netscape > v5). Is it possible to get this to work in Firefox and if not, is there a work around?

Any assistance is much appreciated

mo

 

This should work in Firefox. Have you tried different versions of the browsers?

zerohex

 

zerohex

thanks for the response, I have not tried different versions of the browsers as these are the only versions available to our internal users.

I have tried relocating the function out of the .htm file into a .js file thinking firefox might be tripping on the location relative to the frame structure but this has made no difference.

any suggestions

mo

 

You need to use the document.frames array to reference a frame. Although I strongly suggest you avoid their use altogether.

 

Thanks for the input penagate

As much as I would like to dump the frames in favour of a more robust solution, the application I am using is riddled with them and relies on them to function.

The <div> tags seem to be the problem and are not recognised by firefox although a little more time on the reference paths might sort this out. Unfortunately I have a deadline for this so dont have too much time to investigate.

In the mean while I have found a work around, it seems that accessing images is not a problem, although this is not ideal and has serious limitations on the information that can be received, in my case the response needs to be one of ten numeric values. I have simply created images of each of the ten values and will call these at the appropriate time. As mentioned, not ideal, but is a quick fix and provides a working solution and the user will be none the wiser. I am hoping to revisit this once up and running and get it working properly.

Thanks for the advice

mo

 

Try:

parent.frames.frame_X.document.getElementById('showdata').innerHTML=

Code (markup):

 

That will fail in FireFox. Always use window.frames

 

window.frames, apologies.