Re: writing to frames

[Andy Augustine <aug@ix.netcom.com>]

At 08:21 PM 3/4/96 +0000, you wrote:
>I have a list of links in one frame. On a mouseover() event I want a brief
>description of the currently selected link to be written in another small
>frame in the user window. How can I write to other frames in a window from
>within this frame?

<A HREF="mypage.html"
onMouseover="parent.otherframe.document.write('Description for mypage.html')">

should do the trick.  Although to be safe you may want to call a function
that handles document.open() and/or document.close().

Andy Augustine

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