Display individual frames at run time

I need to have 3 frames on a page out of which only one must be displayed at any time.
Something like this:

One page with 3 frames - only the first is displayed initially but on click of a button on frame 1, display just frame 2 and click of another button, display frame3

Essentially all frames need to be on a single page (so that I dont have to use window.open or window.navigate and at run time remove current frame and display another .

Also in many of the replies there are references to window.frames[0].location , but this gives an error while running. Is there something wrong here?

Thanks for any help.

One way I've been able to do something like this is with JavaScript that looks like:

parent.framename.navigate("whatever.htm")

'parent' refers to the browser window, and 'framename' to the name of the frame inside the window (just make sure you include a NAME attribute with your FRAME in your FRAMESET).

You could put it in a button like so:

<BUTTON onClick="parent.listing.navigate("help_exp.htm")">Populate a frame</BUTTON>

You might want to put blank pages inside your frames to begin with so that they're populated.

Good luck,
Paul

Thanks for the reply.
Displaying the frames at run time is fine but, my main idea was to load just a single page so that there is nothing to go "back" to.
Is that possible?