Frames hell [Resolved]

[Lil Ms Squirrel]

I have a web page which uses frames.

I know frames are bad, but try telling that to my boss!

Anyway, in the banner, I have a search box where the user enters a client id and it performs a search when they click the button with the results being returned to the main frame.

If the user types in the search box and presses enter rather than clicking the button, the main page refreshes to show the search screen instead of the results page.

What am I doing wrong???

[token]

I too am dealing with frames at the moment. Though your problem has nothing to do with frames.

Pressing <enter> forces postback, which essentially does nothing, but put this code in the page_load of the form with the search and it should work.

Page.RegisterHiddenField("__EVENTTARGET", "btnSearch")

Where btnSearch is the name of your search button. And it should work just fine.

Since you are dealing with frames maybe you could answer one of my questions:

Is it possible to call a function or button of one frame from another frame?

[Lil Ms Squirrel]

Thanks token. Works a treat!

As for your problem, I have a link to a page that will probably help you. Let me look it out and I'll post it back here.

Thanks again

[token]

No problem ms. squirrel. I'm just glad I could help.

And if you could get back to me with that link that would be great.

[Lil Ms Squirrel]

Sorry Token...couldn't find the article I was originally looking for, but this morning when faced with a problem similar to yours, I found some helpful code in this article.

For my purposes, I have a treeview in the left frame that needs to be refreshed so I've used this code:

<script language =vbscript>
        Sub RefreshTree()
            parent.frames("contents").location.href = "treeview.aspx"
            parent.frames("main").location.href  = "annualreview.aspx"
        End Sub
</script>

Then I have this control that calls the script code:

<asp:HyperLink id="lnkContinue" runat="server" NavigateUrl="javascript:RefreshTree()">Continue</asp:HyperLink></P>

Hope this helps!

[Lil Ms Squirrel]

I also found this page full of frame FAQs which was really useful.